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The Carnegie Hall Corporation provides free resources to music educators. This website has lesson plans, student guides and worksheets, assessments, teaching videos and audio recordings, games and sheet music for the general music classroom. This website is a great resource for music teachers and provides various ways to search and find specific resources to various concepts.

Classics for Kids is a website featuring high quality weekly radio shows/podcasts about classical composers and their music. The service is provided by Cincinnati Public Radio. Excellent biographical information along with quality excerpts of composers' works are included. There is an extensive catalog of previous shows available for listening which are child friendly and is a great resource for music educators. The website also includes games and a section under the "For Grownups" tab for educators featuring music lesson plans.

A comprehensive list of Peter and the Wolf resources for teaching about all aspects of this work. This list includes videos, worksheets, teacher lesson plans, and interactive whiteboard resources to keep students engaged and interested while learning about Peter and the Wolf.

This site is a resource for anyone looking to add technology to their classroom. It posts conferences, webinars, and has a database of over 400 lesson plans that involve technology.

The home of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. OAKE members can log into the website for resources including lesson plans, choral repertoire, and discounts on OAKE publications. Members can also access information for auditioning singers for the National Conference Choirs and register to attend the annual conferences.

This website provides information related to jazz and jazz history. This website, under the education tab, provides multiple jazz recordings. Additionally, lesson plans are provided to help align the tracks with classroom activities.

The Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute provides music educators with many invaluable resources. The Digital Library provides lesson plans, videos, and other material for teachers to look through and stream or download for their own classes. This is a very thorough website from a giant of musical performance and education.

This is the official website of the new national music standards. It includes the standards for different types of music classes and grade levels and will be helpful for designing lesson plans.

The National Association for Music Education offers an immense amount of resources for music educators, parents, and other music advocates to help enrich the musical world we work and play in. News, teaching resources, and professional development opportunities are routinely shared on this website. Additionally, you can become a NAfME member here.

a) The purpose of the resource is to provide a database of teacher resources and social interaction for an array of musical subjects for use in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers EVERY national music standard! (c) I would use this site for personal study and lesson planning.

All kinds of resources: standards, politics, news, etc. related to music education.

This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

How to make accommodations for music students with special needs has always been a topic of conversation; however, as author Mary Rogelstad suggests, we have nothing to fear; among her list of recommended strategies for effective differentiation are items like teaching lessons that appeal to multiple senses and varying the speed of the content, or repertoire, to be learned and performed. As you can see, Rogelstad provides a sort of manual that helps us help our students to reach their maximum potential.

This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.

This website helps students build their music theory skills. It offers tutorials, articles, and exercises for both ear training and written theory

This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.

Carnegie Hall provides music educators with resources to use with students in K-5. There are various activities, exercises, class games, and assessments that incorporate songs, instruments, and various styles of music. Some concepts taught include rhythm, meter, form, pitch, expressive qualities, and overall performance. Activities and resources are categorized by appropriate grade levels. This website also links to other educational resources, programs, and opportunities that music educators can utilize to benefit themselves and their music students.

Music Teacher Tools & Resources is a resource for teachers in grades K-5 and includes lesson plans, assessments, listening examples, activities, and videos. The resources also integrate the elements of music with engaging activities. A wonderful resource to use and/or complement any lesson.

The purpose of this website is to provide music educators with tools that address music fundamentals. The site also had digital music learning options that provide professional development for educators as well as connect students to diverse musical communities. The resource provides unique learning opportunities for elementary students.

A helpful guide for integrating and teaching solfege in the elementary school music classroom.

This website has resources to accompany their texts, but they are certainly useful even if you don't have their text. K-8 listening maps are great and easy to download. There are also detailed histories of different instruments.

This is a blog by Beth Jahn, an elementary music teacher who wanted to explore more ways to incorporate technology in her classroom. Although it has not been updated in some time, the resources she lists for iDevices are very helpful. She also goes into detail about her lesson plan ideas and how you could use apps with them.

Here is as blog that discuss ways to in corporate music technology in the elementary music classroom. There are various low cost and free apps teachers can download for classroom usage for practice and instruction.

This is a site where students can hear radio shows from the station of the same name as the site, hear instruments demonstrations, play musical games, and review terms from a musical dictionary. Teachers can also benefit from this site by taking advantage of its lesson plans and other teaching resources.

Great website for elementary music class. Easy to understand composer biographies, good music, fun games and a wonderful way to access classical music information.

Classics for Kids is a site that allows children to further learn about composers, music, play games that reinforce rhythms, note names, and improvisation.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids website features games, listening activities, family programs and teacher lesson plan resources. It is a place where young children can be introduced to the instruments and inner workings of an orchestra. There is an activity called Flat Beethoven, which is like Flat Stanley, where the children send Beethoven in the mail to different places and he has "adventures' with the people where ever he goes. Hosts of Flat Beethoven write the children back and send him to another place. FUN!

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has a website for kids with great resources for educators. Students can learn in a fun way about the orchestra, instrument families, timbres, and other aspects of the orchestra.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has a website for kids with great resources for educators. Students can learn in a fun way about the orchestra, instrument families, timbres, and other aspects of the orchestra.

Ideas for professional development, lesson plans, teaching tips, and videos for Orff teachers.

Teaching with Orff is an interesting website with many resources for teachers interested on this approach. Some resources include access to articles, tips, and videos on a variety of relevant Orff topics.