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Research on the BENEFITS of forest or nature school

Forest school: evidence for restorative health benefits in young people

http://www.openspace.eca.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Forest-school-evidence-for-restorative-health-benefits-in-young-people.pdf

Impacts of Long Term Forest School Programs on Children’s Resilience

https://getchildrenoutdoors.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/impacts-of-long-term-forest-schools-programmes-on-childrens-resilience-confidence-and-wellbeing.pdf

Investigating the effectiveness of Forest School sessions

https://getchildrenoutdoors.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/impacts-of-long-term-forest-schools-programmes-on-childrens-resilience-confidence-and-wellbeing.pdf

Forest School: A Marvellous Opportunity to Learn

https://getchildrenoutdoors.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/impacts-of-long-term-forest-schools-programmes-on-childrens-resilience-confidence-and-wellbeing.pdf

Improvements in the children's confidence, motivation and concentration

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03004270802291798?src=recsys&journalCode=rett20

Forest School and its impacts on young children: Case studies in Britain

http://www.outdoorrecreationni.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Forest-School-and-its-impacts-on-young-children_OBrien_Murray-2007.pdf

Outdoor learning spaces: The case of forest school

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.12360

The Benefits of a Forest School Experience for Children in their early year

https://www.forestschooltraining.co.uk/_webedit/uploaded-files/All%20Files/Research%20papers/Massey%20-%20benefits%20of%20FS%20Journal.pdf

Forest Schools in Great Britain: an initial exploration

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/ciec.2007.8.4.320

Forest Guide with links to Research

http://www.langley.bham.sch.uk/pdfs/forest-guide.pdf

An investigation into the benefits of Forest School interventions for young

http://www.academia.edu/3740044/Dissertation_An_investigation_into_the_benefits_of_Forest_School_interventions_for_young_people_with_ADHD_in_the_education_system

*Forest Schools originated in Europe

RESEARCH ON BEING IN & CREATING NATURE & GREENSPACES

Exploring the Relations Between Childhood Experiences in Nature

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/australian-journal-of-environmental-education/article/exploring-the-relations-between-childhood-experiences-in-nature-and-young-adults-environmental-attitudes-and-behaviours/029FC630519229DA5744DBFC257C0EA1

Green schoolyards offer physical and mental health benefits for children

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/aaop-gso090817.php

Seven Cs Findings: making outdoor play spaces places

https://www.natureplaywa.org.au/7cs-an-informational-guide-to-young-children-s-outdoor-play-spaces-2

Kids more active, less depressed when playgrounds include natural elements

http://news.ubc.ca/2016/04/11/kids-more-active-less-depressed-when-playgrounds-include-natural-elements/RESEARCH ON RISKY PLAY

Landscapes for play: Effects of an intervention to promote nature-based...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494417301512

*Forest Schools originated in Europe

My Book recommendations

Free to Learn by Peter Gray

https://amzn.to/3qu0mov

Balanced and Barefoot by Angela J. Hanscom

https://amzn.to/45S9CTK

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

https://a.co/d/0f73z8HT

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

https://amzn.to/3J0Btr7

The Call of the Wild and Free by Ainsley Arment

https://amzn.to/3P0dYCa

*Forest Schools originated in Europe

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