Children and their Environments: Is contact with nature important for healthy child development? State of the evidence

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Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being (2013, background): “(125) documented facilitated knowledge transfer and greater academic achievement in groups taught in outdoor contexts versus in indoor classrooms.”
Could Exposure to Everyday Green Spaces Help Treat ADHD? Evidence from Children's Play Settings (2011, background): “…benefits such as: greater impulse control and delay of gratification, and fostering more play, more creative forms of play, greater capacity to cope with stress, and adult supervision (for review, see Faber Taylor & Kuo, 2006), as well as lower rates of obesity (e.g. Liu, Wilson, Qi, & Ying, 2007).”
Children in nature: sensory engagement and the experience of biodiversity (2018, background): “…by extensive and often passive consumption of technology, an over-emphasis on the ‘written word,’ and indoor educational settings, appears to be contributing to human disconnection from nature (Faber Taylor and Kuo 2006; Kahn, Severson, and ruckert 2009; Louv 2005; Pyle and Orr 2008; Taylor 2013).”