While kids at most schools may be stuck home on a snow day, preschoolers at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Nature Preschool learn a little about gravity. Photo courtesy Chicago Botanic Garden

The Nature of Learning: Why Kids Need to Get Outside More

Being in nature boosts performance and physical and mental health. So why are most school kids cooped up?

Those glorious days of free-range youth, when we ran through forests or fields after school and spent weekends and summers outside by parental decree, are long gone, replaced by all-day…