As soon as human beings starts to develop in their mothers’ womb, they become sensitive to their environment.
And after they were born, the stimuli that they receive from their environments influence their physical, cognitive,
social and emotional development and learning. For it is not possible to think of a human being as a separate entity
from his environment. An individual is both in the center of his environment and is an element of that environment.
Accordingly, he is both affected by his environment and affects his environment with his activities. He shapes his
behavior in this way. Therefore, the environment and behavior are interrelated and the physical environment affects
behavior and learning with different affordances that it has (Acar, 2009).
Based on what has been said so far, this study will emphasize primarily the importance of the notions of
environment and learning environments that influence especially the development of children and then the study
will touch on the contributions of the physical environment to the learning process of children. Furthermore, given
the effects of the outdoor learning environments for children on their learning, the study will also deal with the
design of such spaces. In this way, the paper will give clues to the designers who design outdoor spaces for children
in creating playgrounds that are of higher quality and that will contribute to the learning process of children.
Consequently, the study will unveil the importance of the environment in educating children and will draw attention
to the issues related to learning by playing and learning environments