Abstract: Nature education demand is boosting in China nowadays, especially after the central government launched “dual-reduction-policy” recently. However, the theoretical research is far behind practice needs. This paper reviewed global papers on nature education and nature connectedness by using software CiteSpace to form a knowledge map. The results showed that Empirical research dominated English literature but was lack in Chinese literature. According to the academic key words identified by CiteSpace, “science (STEM), conservation, knowledge, curriculum” are promising research theme from educational perspective, “impact, childhood, sustainability, place, extinction, play” from human geographical perspective and “attitude, perception, experience, scale, health” from psychological perspective. This review appealed domestic academics to conduct empirical research in the above fields to provide scientific support for nature education toward Chinese children.