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Beth's Music Notes is another great blog to follow that includes tons of songs and most free if you join. I like to follow her blog to find new songs to bring to the classroom.

This blog incorporates a multitude of songs and lessons to go with different every day musical concepts. There are lessons and posts regarding rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, Orff arrangements, and recorder songs. Songs on the website are organized into different categories so they are easy to look through and extra resources are linked to help with sub plans, lesson plans, assessments, and even behavior.

A blog, shop, and resource for music teaching. Primarily offers songs, resources, and games in the Kodaly methodology. Posts and songs are searchable by date, grade, and other criteria. Songs and resources are available for purchase.

This website teaches many music concepts. There is a free trial and then you can decide if you want to purchase it or not.

The MusicLearningCommunity provides teachers, parents, and students with resources that allow them to learn more about music. The site features games and a blog for extra information and learning.

Fun game for developing the young ear. This can be used as a visual for teaching melodic direction and can lead into a discussion about texture and form.

Another great website for teaching music. There are many interactive games, some great videos about composers in the time machine, and tools to help kids compose and improvise together.

Quaver's Marvelous World of Music is an interactive music education curriculum and program that integrates, what students love: technology and fun! The host of the video episodes, "Quaver" makes music learning fun and memorable. There are free parts of the program as well as extensive paid sections. If you teach in SC, this is a service paid for by the state. Contact Buz at Quaver Music for your log-in information.

Teachers pay teachers is user content for other users to use. For a small fee (or free in many cases!), an educator could find lessons, activities, resources, or curriculum that would work well for their specific teaching situation. For a teacher with ideas and resources looking to make a little bit of extra money, they could put up their own content for others to buy.

A fun and interactive source or beat mixing and music making. No account needed. Free options. Allows students to create, record, and download their compositions.

Incredibox is an online and free music technology resource that has the user drag and drop icons to create different arrangements using various loops. The website also creates a game where the user must find the right combination of loops to make creative decisions that the program has pre-determined. This resource is a great tool to introduce students to the world of music technology while also teaching about form, the recording process, sharing of music, and how/why musicians makes creative decisions.

This composition website allows the composer to experiment with form, texture, harmony, and other elements of music without having to read standard notation. Instead of music notes, the music is represented by a cartoon boy in different outfits.

This website provides music reading reinforcement through the use of online flash cards. There are even two versions, in case you do not have access to Flash player.

My mentor showed me this website a few years ago. We both use it in our classrooms as a center for our elementary level general music classes.

This site presents students with knowledge on famous composers, well-known literature, composing, instruments, timbre, beat patterns, and more in the form of Discover, Listen, Play, Perform, Conduct, and Compose.

Great elementary music exploration site!

SFSKids is an interactive website for kids. This website offers listening, playing, performing, conducting and composing opportunities. 

This is a great website for teaching beginning composition!

This composition site through Classics for Kids gives two levels of composing- beginner and advanced. A great variety of notes to be used (there are dotted rhythms in the advanced level), and students can drag the notes/rests easily to where they'd like to on the staff. This site is great for teaching composition, beats, time signature, treble clef staff and notes.

Chrome Music Lab allows students and teachers to connect music with other disciplines such as visual art, math, science, movement, and more. No account needed.

This site gives students the ability to create satisfying compositions that explore texture using loops that are designed to fit in with each other. Perfectly suited for differentiation, students can create works that are simple or complex.

Music Improvisation Arranging Music

Incredibox is a web-based mixing tool, and its purpose is to create mixes with pre-set loops including, beats, effects, voices, and melodies. In each "dude", the user needs to select a "clothing piece" that contains a specific loops. The user begins creating their mixes, and can add and delete them as needed. Musically speaking, it is a teaching tool because the user learns how to mix loops ate certain points. It enhance several concepts such as rhtyhm and meter. It can be used by elementary and secondary-level students.

This website list resources available to music instruction. Educators can find providers of music lessons, lesson planing pages, blank sheet music.

Music Ed Blogs is a website that features information about all areas of music education. The website itself is a collection of, what it rates as being, the best music education blogs. There is a wide variety of resources available to the viewer on Music Ed Blogs. They have articles on everything from why you should attend a conference to songs and games for Valentine's Day. The website also has several free resources that would be especially useful to a new, or first year, teacher.

Although this website doesn't focus on one specific blog or concept area, it's a great resource to find a wide array of information. Not everything on this website will interest everyone, but it's easy to find something that pertains to your subject area. It also includes a wide variety of bloggers, thus giving the reader the opportunity to see content that they normally might miss.