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A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment. When done for students, it is also known as school trip in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, lakbay aral in the Philippines, Ensoku 遠足 (Ensoku) ('Excursion') in Japan and Klassenfahrt in Germany.

The purpose of the trip is usually observation for education, non-experimental research or to provide students with experiences outside their everyday ACTIVITIES, such as going camping with teachers and their classmates. The aim of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and possibly collect samples. It is seen that more-advantaged children may have ALREADY experienced cultural institutions outside of school, and field trips provide a common ground with more-advantaged and less-advantaged children to have some of the same cultural experiences in the arts.[1]

Field trips are most often done in 3 steps: preparation, activities and follow-up activity. The connection between THEORY and its practical is thickly distorted. Also, the numerous problems students face in the real world due to mugging up the textbooks because of curriculum focusing on theoretical learning have further made it complicated.[2] Preparation applies to both the student and the teacher. Teachers often take the time to learn about the destination and the subject before the trip. Activities that happen on the field trips often include: lectures, tours, worksheets, videos and demonstrations. Follow-up activities are generally discussions that occur in the CLASSROOM once the field trip is completed.[3]

In Western culture people first come across this method during school years when classes are taken on school trips to visit a geological or geographical feature of the landscape, for example. Much of the early research into the natural sciences was of this form. Charles DARWIN is an important example of someone who has contributed to science through the use of field trips.[citation needed]

Popular field trip sites include zoos, nature centers, community agencies such as fire stations and hospitals, government agencies, local businesses, amusement parks, science museums, and factories.