Outdoor education is organized learning that takes place in the outdoors, typically during school camping trips. Outdoor education programs sometimes involve residential or journey wilderness-based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges and outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, canoeing, ropes courses and group games. Outdoor education draws upon the philosophy, theory, and practices of experiential education and environmental education.
An outdoor visual arts class going on in National College of Arts, Pakistan
A group of Outward Bound participants with physical disabilities after completing a ropes course, c. 1996.
Freshmen at Wyoming Catholic College hike in the Teton Mountains during a three-week backpacking course.
A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity which usually consists of high elements, low elements, or some combination of the two. Low elements take place on the ground or above the ground. High elements are usually constructed in trees or made of utility poles and require a belay for safety.
Example of a high ropes course at night
Rope climbing at the Alpine Center Bottrop, built by insight-out, Germany
Adventure Park in a forest
Two boys climbing on the Palisades Climb Adventure, an indoor rope course at Palisades Mall, West Nyack, New York