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The Smithsonian Folkways website offers lesson plans and recordings pertaining to world music. Using the map tool, teachers can select a region and view a PDF lesson plan (primarily for upper elementary, middle, and high school levels) and links to tracks for purchase or streaming. The site also includes information about professional development and interactive features, such as a jazz mixer and "Meet the Mariachi."

Smithsonian Folkways is the record label of the Smithsonian Institute. Website includes free resources for the classroom including lesson plans, courses for teachers, and additional resources including thousands of recordings.

Smithsonian Folkways provides free lesson plans, activities and classroom resources on world music. The lessons can be downloaded in PDF format. The web page offers interactive features for students to learn about other music cultures and heritage.

La Nueva Cancion is an entry on the Smithsonian Folkways website. It introduces the reader to the New Song movements in Latin America. It includes a couple of videos on people who has continued that trend in the United States as a consequence of political exile from their home countries.

This website is lesson plans relating to music from the Smithsonian Folkways program. There is music from all over the world located here and lesson plans for various ages and grade levels. They are organized by continent.

I love the resources on this website. I use them in a variety of different ways to teach world music!

This is a collection of authentic field recordings around the world. These recordings can be used to give teachers and students a deeper understanding of a folk song's musical and cultural context.

The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings website is filled with standard-based content from around the globe. There are articles to read, podcasts to listen to, recordings to listen to, artists to research and lesson plans to use in the classroom. The lesson plans are standard-based and well researched. Each lesson is labeled on the world map for easy reference. Lessons have links to playlists, videos and additional resources. There are lesson plans designed for all ages K-12.

These recordings provide students the opportunity to hear music from all over the world and explore the social impact of music on our society. These resources are invaluable as a music teacher.

This site includes lessons and music from numerous countries.  This is a great resource for teaching multi-cultural music.

Great resource for music listening activities in class. Contains information about different cultures and traditions, audio files, videos, podcasts, lesson plans etc.

This site offers links to many music files. There are many folk and ethnic songs as well as traditional ensemble music. Everything on this site is free.