Field Trip Guidelines

## **What's a Field Trip?**

A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment. Field Trip takes a personalized approach to mental wellness. We blend legal psychedelic-enhanced therapy, mindfulness, and self-care with a series of sessions with trained psychotherapists. All in a comfortable, spa-like environment that promotes healing.

### **Why Psychedelic Medicine?**

There is a mental health crisis. According to WHO, over 300 million people globally suffer from anxiety. Psychedelic therapies are a very real alternative to conventional approaches. When combined with psychotherapy and our people-centric approach, psychedelics can support a process of healing, recovery, and self-discovery.

When done for students, as it happens in several school systems, it is also known as **school trip** in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, **lakbay aral** in the Philippines, **ensoku** (遠足) in Japan, **Klassenfahrt** in Germany and **gita** in Italy. 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.

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. 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.

## **About**

A variation on the field trip is the "site-based program" or "site-school" model, where a class temporarily relocates to a non-school location for an entire week to take advantage of the resources on the site. The approach was first developed at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada in 1993, and "Zoo School" was inaugurated in 1994. The Calgary Board of Education then approached the Glenbow Museum and Archives to create a "Museum School" in 1995 followed by the Calgary Science Centre (1996), the University of Calgary (1996), Canada Olympic Park (1997), the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (1998), Calgary City Hall (2000), Cross Conservation Area (2000), the Calgary Stampede (2002), the Calgary Aero-Space Museum (2005), and the Fire Training Academy (2008). One of the newer schools in Calgary is Tinker School and Social Enterprise School at STEM Learning Lab (2018) The model spread across Alberta (with 15 sites in Edmonton alone), throughout Canada and to the United States. Global coordination of the model is through the "Beyond the Classroom Network".

A somewhat similar model in France called *classe de mer* (sea class), *classe de neige* (snow class), or *classe verte* (green class) involving outdoor education trips that last several days, however these may not involve support from museum or zoo staff as in the Canadian model.

## **To get things started/packed up**

'*10 **Things** to **Pack** for a **Field Trip'***

1. First Aid Kit. Having a basic first aid kit on a **field trip** is super important. ...
2. Clipboards or Notebooks. **Something** to write with is another staple **in** my bag. ...
3. Tools for Investigations. ...
4. Camera. ...
5. Name Tags and/or Bright T-Shirts. ...
6. List of Questions. ...
7. Bags for Collections.
8. Lunches (If starving)
9. Swimsuits (For Swimming if needed)
10. Nintendo stuff (For fun)
11. Games (They're fine too)
12. Clothes that are washed or new clothes.
13. Anything that you need.
14. Camping stuff

## **Permission Slips**

When you start the **permission slip**, begin with a concise, detailed summary of the event or project.

### Blanket Permission Slip

The Blanket Permission Slip is one that covers the basics. These slips are used for the standard field trip that occurs during the school year.

### Informed Consent Slip

If there is going to be an activity, event, or trip that may have an ‘inherent risk’ involved. This is explained in great detail, so when the parent or guardian signs the slip, the school is not held responsible should something occur.

### Legal Value of a Permission Slip

When the parent or guardian fills out a permission slip, they are basically stating that those in charge of the trip, such as the school, are not responsible if something occurs on the trip. The blanket slip usually has a ‘Waiver of Liability”. This means the parent or guardian agrees that if something happens during the trip, it’s not the school’s fault. It is not uncommon for the school to ask to have the permission slip signed by a notary public if the trip is extended, out of state or country. Just write you name & fully up your Permission Slip. It takes easier to have the best Field Trip in history!

### Location

The Permission Slips are acceptable at the School. You could get it from any classroom at The School. It's always available on Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, & Colleges *[citation needed].*