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Kathryn Glenn Natural Environments At School.Pdf, Kathryn Glenn
Kathryn Glenn Natural Environments At School.Pdf, Kathryn Glenn
Kathryn Glenn
When children exert cognitive energy at school, they can become mentally fatigued. Contact with the natural environment can restore attention, leaving children mentally refreshed and better able to concentrate. Database searches using keyword phrases yielded 18 peer-reviewed articles showing links between the natural environment and school children, and scanning the references of these articles yielded 3 more relevant articles. Natural environments on school campuses positively correlated with attention restoration, stress reduction, and academic performance in school children, with a few exceptions. These benefits tended to be greater when children spent longer durations of time in natural environments, when there was …