Field trip

A field trip is typically a jouney by a group of people performing research on a topic to a place away from their normal environment. This is usually associated with a non-experimental form of quantitative research referred to as observation. The aim of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and possibly collect samples. In western culture people first come across this method during school years when classes are taken on excursions 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 people who have contributed to sceince through the use of field trips.