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This online songbook is a collection of hundreds of songs that might be appropriate for elementary-aged students to sing during class.

This website provides an extensive collection of folk music from Britain, Ireland, and America. It provides free MIDIs of folk songs, lyrics, and information about each piece. This site is great for students to explore folk music.

This website contains links to a large collection of articles, both new and old, written by professional music educators in the UK. Articles can be filtered by instrument, which is very handy.

A collection of music-related videos that may be useful to musoc educators.

This is a blog created by a group of music educators that contains links to other blogs and and websites that aid music instruction in the classroom. Teachers can also have discussions and share ideas.

The Center for Music Learning was established by the University of Texas at Austin as an online collective of information that is useful for music educators from a variety of disciplines. Users can find useful pedagogical information, access research, and connect with other educators across multiple disciplines in music. 

The Library of Congress has a plethora of information and media related to music education. Within the archives of the Library of Congress are recordings of folk songs, articles about music in America, and podcasts. One of these podcast collections is about Music and the Brain where research related to music and how it affects the brain is reviewed and discussed. This is an excellent resource for music advocacy. It is also a great resource for better understanding music learning.

Awesome collection of jazz transcriptions. Students can learn solos played by great jazz musicians.

Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.

HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.

Making Music Fun contains many different printable resources along with a 900+ free music lesson plans and resources. Each lesson is categorized under the different educational topic which makes it easy to navigate the site.

Making Music Fun.net is a fun resource for both teachers and students. There are fun worksheets, and free sheet music for a variety of different instruments arranged by difficulty level. I like to leave these worksheets for a sub, and I give the sheet music to my trumpet students for practicing fun items in addition to their method books which may get boring from time to time. There is also information regarding composers, and is perfect for the elementary classroom.

Has a variety of resources for elementary level music teachers. The collection of sheet music organized by playing level is particularly good. You can also access theory, music history, and composer activity worksheets. Also contains a large number of lesson plans with accompanying worksheets.

A wonderfurl collection of .pdfs and mp3s for students and teachers who are studying music theory. Hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Music, there are hundreds of prime examples of music laid out by theory concepts such as scales, chords, forms, voicings, modulations, etc.

This site has digital and downloadable flash cards for many music topics including note names, key signatures, piano note names, reading guitar notes, intervals, alto and tenor clefs, and triads. Teachers and students can also customize the flashcards for their own needs. It is appropriate for beginners through advanced musicians and the collection is growing every week.

Database of children's songs appropriate for elementary level which includes recordings as well as lyrics and sheet music. Large collection of music, but beware of pop ups.

K-12 Resources for Music Educators is a wonderful site which provides a number of links which connect teachers to music resources. The links are divided into categories such as band, orchestra, choral, classroom, and music. The links provided give a variety of musical sites which provide information on specific instruments, types of music, and state websites.

A large collection of resources for band, choir, and general music teachers.  

A great site with a giant list of music websites from around the country. It includes everything from organizations to instrument specific websites and blogs. A great deal of information can be found on the websites listed and you have a great deal of choices to choose from. Most subject areas have multiple websites linked for differing information sources.

Harmony Central is a collection of articles geared toward the performing or gigging musician. For students, this resource could provide guiding documents for those considering a leap into the field of live shows, with expert advice, user reviews, and a forum for collaboration.

Dr. William I. Bauer's webiste containing many technological resources. You can download handouts from previous presentations as well as find other information related to the Professor.

These resources were complied by Dr. William Bauer of the University of Florida. This page serves as a collection of various resources and handouts from various presentations. Among these resources are an excellent handout regarding practice and practice goals, information for pre-service and in-service teachers about music technology, and research regarding music technology in the classroom. The site does not contain actual musical content, but rather information for use by music teachers. 

This is a site with a collection of web experiments using audio api on the web browser. Here you can find lots of really interesting examples, instruments, and games.

A collection of music education software, as well as furniture, equipment, recording software and other special features.  Books and percussion are also included.

Collect Files, Documents, Photos & Videos, Student Assignments, Competition Submissions, Applications directly in your Dropbox, Google Drive, or Amazon S3.

A collection of pop songs that work well for school ensembles: mostly 3 or 4 chords