Kids Need Nature

How Access to Nature During The School Year Can Help Students Thrive

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47365/how-access-to-nature-during-the-schoolyear-can-help-students-thrive

Deepening Students’ Connection to Nature

https://www.edutopia.org/article/deepening-students-connection-nature

Nature Helps Fight ADHD

https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/news/20040827/nature-helps-fight-adhd

Getting back to nature may help children cope with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Spending time in "green" settings reduced ADHD symptoms in a national study of children aged 5 to 18.

Are We Doing Recess Right? A New Tool Can Help

https://www.edutopia.org/article/are-you-doing-recess-right-new-tool-can-help

Recess serves as a necessary break from the rigors of concentrated, academic challenges in the classroom. But equally important is the fact that safe and well-supervised recess offers cognitive, social, emotional, and physical benefits that may not be fully appreciated when a decision is made to diminish it.

Benefits of School Gardens

https://kidsgardening.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/KG_BenefitsofSchoolGardens-2016.pdf

Experience and research have shown numerous benefits of school gardens and natural landscaping:

• students learn focus and patience, cooperation, teamwork and social skills.
• they gain self-confidence and a sense of “capableness” along with new skills and knowledge in food growing — soon-to-be-vital for the 21st century.

Nature Deficit Disorder
https://www.childrenandnature.org/about/nature-deficit-disorder/

Nature-deficit disorder is the idea that human beings, especially children, are spending less time outdoors, and the belief that this change results in a wide range of behavioral problems.