COMPILATION: BENEFITS OF GREEN SCHOOLYARDS AND OUTDOOR LEARNING
We’ve selected Research Digests from the past few years that feature compelling evidence for green schoolyards and outdoor learning.
Nature-based learning in the early years
JULY 2022: Nature-based learning (NBL) is an educational approach that engages children with the natural environment and natural elements as a pathway for learning. The studies highlighted in this Digest focus on NBL during the early years and include a number of different research designs.
(Photo courtesy Maria Durana, San Francisco Children & Nature)
Schools connecting children to nature
AUGUST 2021: Green schoolyards designed around children’s preferences and outdoor learning pedagogies can promote increased physical activity, socio-emotional health, engagement with learning, and connectedness to nature.
The benefits of nature-based education
AUGUST 2020: In this special issue of the Research Digest, we present articles addressing the benefits of nature-based learning for academic, cognitive, psychological, and social functioning and the development of environmental consciousness.
Attention, green schoolyards, SEL and research tools
JANUARY 2019: This Digest covers attention restoration, green schoolyards and surrounding greenness, the link between childhood experiences and adults’ connectedness to nature, research tools, social-emotional benefits, and special needs.
Education, green schoolyards, health & play spaces
AUGUST 2018: Studies in this Digest focus on connectedness to nature and ecological identity, education, green schoolyards, physical and mental health, play and play spaces.
Green schoolyards
JUNE 2018: This special issue of the Research Digest focused on green schoolyards as a simple intervention with big potential. (Photo courtesy of Life Lab)
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