This research overview is about the research questions of what place-based learning means and how place-based teaching affects learning in science in middle school. The aim has been to conduct a research overview of what research says in this subject area. The research sources were selected through relevant search criteria based on the research questions. Literature searches were made in the reference databases ERC and ERIC. After a further reading of abstracts, 10 articles were finally considered to be relevant to the research questions. The final literature was compiled using a coding scheme. Key findings of the overview are (1) that the relevant research is consistent with the fact that place-based learning and place-based teaching interest, motivate, engage and raise results in the natural science subjects in middle school; (2) that the coherent result includes students with different social and cultural backgrounds; (3) that the students appreciated the learning situations outside the classroom; and (4) that practical processing develops the understanding of theoretical concepts in natural science subjects in middle school.