Benefits of Environmental Education

• Children and Nature Network research
• "Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning," Lieberman & Hoody
• DC Schoolyard Greening - DC Environmental Education Consortium
• Getting Lost in the Great Indoors: Many Adults Worry that Nature is Disappearing from Children's Lives, by Donna St. George, Washington Post 2007
• No Child Left Inside Coalition - compilation of research of impact of EE on students
• Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative Research
• "The Schoolyard Habitat Movement: What It Is and Why Children Need It," by Mary Rivkin, Ph.D., University of Baltimore County Education Department Early Childhood Education Program
• Schoolyard Learning: The Impact of School Grounds, A research paper by Education Development Center, Inc. and the Boston Schoolyard Funders Collaborative
• Study of Green Schools & Student Reading Achievement: Clavijo
• Where the Wild Things Are: Using Nature to Build Living & Learning Skills, by Laura Sessions Stepp

• ADHD: Green Play Settings Reduce ADHD Symptoms, University of Illinois
• ADHD: A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence From a National Study
• BENEFITS OF NATURE FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: Slender in the Grass by Dr. Sanjay Gupta in TIME
• CHILDHOOD OBESITY: Neighborhood Greenness and 2-Year Changes in Body Mass Index of Children and Youth