NATURE MENTORS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
MENTOR: ENTRANCE
Follow-Up Survey Questions:
(1)(If yes) How many times have you been to the Urban Ecology Center before?
(2)If you answered that you don’t get to spend as much time outside as you want to, why is that? How much more time would you like to spend outside?
Mentor/Mentee Relationship:
(3) What is your relationship to your mentee, and how long have you known them?
(4) How would you describe the quality of your relationship with your mentee?
(5) Do you expect your relationship to change through the nature mentor program? (If yes) How?
(6) Do you do outdoor activities with your mentee? (If yes) How often?
Programming:
(7) What do you expect to learn from this program?
(8) What types of training and tools would you like to see in programming?
Nature & Time Use:
(9) How do you currently use your free time – types of activities, indoor or outdoor?
(10) How would you describe the quality of your relationship with the outdoors?
(11) In the programming we will do things like canoe, bike, rock climb, and identify plant. Do you feel you have nature skills like those or others? (If yes) Can you give me some examples?
MENTOR: EXIT
Follow-Up Survey Questions:
(1)Why will you or why won’t you come back to the Urban Ecology Center in the future?
(2)If you said yes to using skills outside of programming time, what types of skills did you use?
(3)If you think you will spend more time outside, why is that?
(4)If you said you think the amount of time you spend outside with your mentee will change, do you think you will spend more or less time with them outside? Why?
Mentor/Mentee Relationship:
(5) How would you describe the quality of your relationship with your mentee after programming?
(6) Do you think your relationship with your mentee changedbecause of the program, if at all? (If yes) How?
Programming:
(7) How did the programming meet or not meet your expectations?
(8) How would you describe the quality of the training and tools? How could they be improved?
Nature & Time Use:
(6) Did the way you use your free time change after completing programming?(If yes) How?
(7) How would you describe the quality of your relationship with the outdoors after completing the program?
(8) Do you feel more comfortable being outside and using nature skills? (if yes) Why?
MENTEE: ENTRANCE
Follow-Up Survey Questions:
(1)(If yes) How many times have you been to the Urban Ecology Center before?
(2)If you answered that you don’t get to spend as much time outside as you want to, why is that? How much more time would you like to spend outside?
Mentor/Mentee Relationship:
(3) What is your relationship to your mentor, and how long have you known them?
(4) Do you know your mentor well?
(5) Do you think your relationship with your mentor will changebecause of this program? (If yes) How?
(6) Do you do outdoor activities with your mentor? (If yes) How often?
Programming:
(7) What do you expect to learn from this program?
(8) What types of activities and nature skills do you hope there will be in programming?
Nature & Time Use:
(9) How do you currently use your free time – types of activities, indoor or outdoor?
(10) What do you think about nature and being outside?
(11) In the program we will do things like canoe, bike, rock climb, and identify plants. Do you think you have nature skills like these or others? (If yes) Can you give me some examples?
MENTEE: EXIT
Follow-Up Survey Questions:
(1)Why will you or why won’t you come back to the Urban Ecology Center in the future?
(2)If you said yes to using skills outside of programming time, what types of skills did you use?
(3)If you think you will spend more time outside, why is that?
(4)If you said you think the amount of time you spend outside with your mentor will change, do you think you will spend more or less time with them outside? Why?
Mentor/Mentee Relationship:
(5) How well do you know your mentor after completing programming with them?
(6) Do you think your relationship with your mentor changed because of this program, if at all? (If yes) How?
Programming:
(7) Was programming what you thought it would be?
(8) How can we make it better?
Nature & Time Use:
(6) Did the way you your free time change after completing programming? (If yes) How?
(7) What do you think about nature and being outside after completing programming?
(8) Do you feel more comfortable being outside and using nature skills? (if yes) Why?