 The first theatres in the country were built during the Tudor period. London's Globe Theatre was built in 1599 and destroyed by fire 14 years later. William Shakespeare made the Globe the most famous theatre in the country. The new Globe theatre was opened in 1997 and 16th century building methods were used to construct it. This clip has subtitles available in Flash. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/shakespeare-and-the-globe-theatre/3342.html  Discovery Student Adventures grants you access to the world’s most treasured places: the ancient lands, the wilderness areas, and the secret places few tourists see. There, among the scientists, explorers, and indigenous people is where the adventure—and the learning—begin. So pack your curiosity and get ready for an adrenaline-pumping, heart-stopping, life-altering journey.
http://studentadventures.discoveryeducation.com/?campaign=flyout_students_programs_dsa  Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government.
http://aceonlineschools.com/25-awesome-virtual-learning-experiences-online/  Gr 4-6
Teachers in grades 4-6 are encouraged to consider having their students design and make their own musical instruments as part of an interdisciplinary unit on sound. After the instruments are made, photos of the instruments may be sent to this site where they will be displayed on the Internet site. http://www.musicinventions.org/  All Ages
Lit Trips uses Google Earth to map the adventures of well-known literary characters such a Coltaire’s Candide or the Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath. The site maintains a rich archive of maps organized by grade levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12 & Hi Ed. Students and teachers are encouraged to create and submit travels from their own favourite books. http://www.googlelittrips.org/ All
Gail Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits and read-along visits. www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm  All.
This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the Trip Journal, the Virtual Visit (a streaming video), an Ask the Expert tool and a hosted Web chat. www.efieldtrips.org  Grades 8-12The Virtual Globe. Experience the 1598 Globe Theatre through this animated Flash experience.
Updated Link: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/sound_globe.swf  Grades 3-5
ISTE, along with partners Tabula Digita, an educatioal game maker, have released a new interactive science game for students free of charge. www.theleagueofscientists.com  The History Project invites every student in Canada and throughout the world, to explore this site and submit your projects thoughts and images about Canada's role at Vimy Ridge
http://www.canadahistory.ca/ | In today's cyberage, the Internet can extend the educational value of field trips to levels previously unimaginable. Virtual field trips—field trips taken online—can take a student to locations too far away to travel to or too expensive to visit. Virtual field trips can take a student back in time, into outer space, or into the microscopic world.
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