"For students, benefits include increased academic success, better mental and physical health, lower levels of stress and anxiety, better and more numerous social connections, better intra-and interpersonal skills, increased environmental sensitivity, and better connectedness to nature and to place."

https://doi.org/10.18666/JOREL-2017-V9-I1-7491

HEALTH, WELLNESS

and 

PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS

PROSOCIAL CONNECTION

and

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

"Improvements can be seen in students' perceived group-work skills...attitudes and confidence toward group work, and the cooperative and social environment..."

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-014-9791-4

FUN OF LEARNING

and

UNDERSTANDING

"Outdoor adventure education experiences can also help participants shift their perception toward viewing learning as fun and toward understanding that the best learning involves initiative by the learner." 

https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825913516735

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

and

LEARNING THAT LASTS

Outdoor learning "stimulates brain function and development" in addition to seeing "the learning still happening even after [a] trip has concluded" as an individual shares and recounts the experience for peers, family and friends."

https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/caps_thes/496

VITALITY

and

SELF-CONTROL

"Outdoor education...increased vitality" in both intraverted and extraverted students. Additionally, unwanted or disruptive classroom behaviors were "mainly absent when [students] were observed outdoors".  

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https://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wje.v2n4p20

HAPPINESS, MINDFULNESS

and

STRESS REDUCTION

"The physical distance [provided by outdoor education] to a person's daily routines seems to create a psychological distance, too" resulting in "an increase in life satisfaction, happiness, mindfulness, self-efficacy, and lower perceived stress."

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https://doi..org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.03.009