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 * Francie's Interview Results for HT 123 Project**

I conducted interviews on Friday, April 3 with five children between the ages of 6-9 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (There were also two extra kids, making it seven, a curious four year old and a ten year old who answered the question as well, I've tallied and transcribed only the 6-9 year old responses here). The first interview was videotaped. I received parental permission and each interview took approximately 30 minutes. The names have been changed for purposes of this research. Below is a write-up of my findings.

"Rose" aged 7 "Benedict" aged 9 "Rachel" aged 6 Twins "Hayden" and "Danny" aged 6
 * Kids interviewed:**


 * Content Question Answers:

1. Have you ever tried to grow anything, like flowers of vegetables?** Yes -3 No-2 "I tried to plant a flower" "I think I tried planting some lettuce but it died." (Later in the interview, Benedict says it was spinach that he actually planted). "An apple tree" "I tried to grow watermelon." "
 * If yes, what did you grow?**


 * 2. Do you know how poeple grow tomatoes?**

"First you get a pack of seeds and somne water and get a nice sunny place and then water them." "They would put some seeds in the ground and cover it up, and then they'd wait for about a year... "Put 'em in the ground and water them." " "

"Water, shovel and seeds" "Soil, dirt, sunshine and ...seeds" " "Shovel, seeds, water, wait" "Water, soil, shovel, seeds"
 * 3. What do you need to grow plants or vegetables?**

"Ohio, Oklahoma" "Virginia" "Virginia" "Dirt, open area" "On the ground"
 * 4. Where can you grow tomatoes?**

On a farm? Yes-5 No-0
 * 5. Do you think you can grow tomatoes...**

In a backyard? Yes-5 No-0

On a roof-top? Yes-0 No-5

In a barrel? Yes-2 No-3

"About four months" "About four months" "I think at least two weeks" "One week" "One month"
 * 6. How long does it take to grow tomatoes?**

"five months" "It wouldn't take so long...two months" "six months" "six months" "six months"
 * ...Lettuce?**

"I think five months" "About seven" (because it has to grow really fast). "One to six months" "One to six months" "one to six months"
 * ...watermelon?**

"Five months" "six months" Four months**"** "More than one month" "Six months"
 * ...oranges?**

"Since it growed so fast, I'm going to say one day. Sorry. One day...No, five months." "Six months" "One year" "One month" "One month"
 * ...beans?**

"They would grow.. "They would grow" "It would grow" " "
 * 7. If took the seeds from tomatoes that you eat at home and planted, what would happen?**

"I like them" "I like them" "I like them very much" "I like them very very much" I LOVE playgrounds"
 * 8. Do you like or no like playgrounds?**

"I like to go down a slide and going down a pole" "Slide" "Monkey bars, swing, slide" "Monkey bars (made) out of trees. Swings out of trees. Slide made out of cars. Big slides." "A lot of swings." "Ten swings"
 * 9. What are your favorite things to do on a playground?**


 * 10. Imagine for a minute that you can build your own playground....And the playground can have whatever you like. OK? I want you to think about that for a second. And I want you to tell me about your playground in just a minute. Keep thinking. What does your playground look like? It can have whatever you like...Close your eyes...I want you to tell me about your playground and tell me what you'd like to do on your playground, what it looks like?"**

"OK, so I imagine that my slide is going down a slope and I that I am going to jump into a pool... full of fish, and I am swimming there for about a half an hour. And then I'd have a slide and then I have would have some swing sets and I would have a pole."

"I would have slides going down into a pool, too, with um...ladders and swings in the middle... and a place where you can sit under the shade."

"It is a place where there is a lot of climbing"

"A place to sit in the grass and play games."

"My magical playground... has a long slide that ends up in a pool and then it goes to a pool that goes to a river...and the bridge people can walk on it and you can go under it. And then you go on this long waterfall and then you end up on a trampoline and go down a slide and then you jump up and slide in the air and then you go on a soft and comfy..."

"(My magical playground) there'd be a slide where it goes 100 miles up, going down 100 miles down and then you'd have a tube that would make you go round, round, round until you got dizzy and then you'd go inside a pool and then you could have a soda pop...and then you'd get off of it and then you'd go to the swing sets which are statical and then you'd jump off and end up way up in the sky and you'd be flying with a flock of birds...and there's this one part when you are in the pool and you go really really high and then after an hour you 'd go down."

"My playground is going to be scientifical. And so you go inside the human body and you go inside the part where you have and see the digestion...it's sceince...seriously,...and then you go down the stomach-way...and swim in the pool and then you go down and end up back at your playground doing it again and again..."

"after you go down on the beach and there's a town and there's an ice cream place..."
 * Questions on SuperPowers:

11. If you had a superpower, what would it be?** "I want a superpower that could make things." "To fly and go to places around the world and then you could have $10,000. to make anything"

"Bending and being super flexible. I could go into sports and stuff"

"fire"

"make snow"

"invisible"

Super speed-3 happy; 2 surprised heat things - 3 happy; 2 neutral Move heavy things by blowing on them- 5 surprised X-ray vision- 2 sad ("I don't like x-ray vision because it would hurt my eyes."); 2 surprised; 1 happy invisibility- 5 happy super memory-3 happy ("Because I would get an A on every test"); 2 neutral. extra arms or legs-3 sad ("I don't want to have too many arms or legs")
 * 12. Super Power rating on a Smiley face scale of the following questions...**


 * TOP THREE CHOICES FOR ANIMAL CHARACTERS:

Child #1 Monkey, Lizard, Chipmunk Child #2 Skunk, Monkey, Chipmunk Child #3 Monkey, Frog, Skunk Child #4 Hamster, Chipmunk, Bat Child #5 Frog, Goldfish, Ferret**