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This website allows very young children to create music and perform simple ear training tasks.

This is a great interactive music website to use with elementary students as a center or as a class.

This blog is by music educator Brenda Muench who shares many of her success and failures at implementing technology in the elementary music classroom. She has several great lesson plan ideas and shares her experience with her own students.

This is a website that describes software for learning the recorder. It uses interdisciplinary aspects that seem to be interesting - and probably appealing to students.

Here is as software program review of Go for the Gold! I have never seen a software program for the Recorder. This program can be useful for elementary school music students that are beginning to play on song flutes.

This blog is notable for its excellent organization: it's indexed by category, including type of device (iPad, smartphone, SmartBoard), educational use (choral, band, elementary ed, collegiate, private instruction), free online resources, app reviews, and more. It has links to a number of music technology sites, and includes inspirational quotes as well! It's a handy go-to site for teachers looking for an all-inclusive music tech website.

Very useful blog with some creative ideas for the elementary general music classroom. 

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.

Great blog with a lot of lesson plans and resources for elementary general music classrooms. It also has links to the blogger's pinterest account with more resources.

This site provides a myriad of links to several music education resources such as Pedagogy resources, power point presentations, songs, lesson plans, instruments, listening, and assessment resources.

Music K-8 is a popular site among elementary/middle school classroom music teachers. The popular magazine is full of great ideas, music, games, articles, and musical performance programs. A very useful aspect of the website is the "Idea Bank" which is located in the Resources tab. Subscribing to the idea bank list allows music teachers to instantly interact, discuss, and share with colleagues across the nation. The diverse wealth of resources available here are sure to be helpful in every kindergarten through 8th grade music class.

These tools are designed for classroom "noise" management, but seem to me to have application for the elementary music classroom in discovering appropriate dynamic levels.

This site has tons of games that are perfect for all ages in the elementary music classroom!

This is a website to use with elementary students for teaching about the components of an opera. Hansel and Gretel is sung in English and students are able to interact and make decisions about the production.

inter-active opera - 3d characters also - Scheherazade and Brahms in 1890's adventures

This is an online interactive game for EVERYONE! Students are presented the chance to design their own opera, embark with interactive chamber music, access music resources, and even engage the entire family with a family listening activity.

iPad resource

This site presents the 30 best iPad apps for music educators and their students to integrate into their classrooms. The apps range in appropriateness of students at the elementary age all the way to the high school levels of music instruction.

This web page offers free printable of stories and props for kids. Even though it's not a music education site, elementary music teachers that use stories to teach music concepts such as beat, high/low, soft/loud, among other concepts, can find excellent patterns to print and use in their classes. There are many books based on songs.

Purpose of this resource: This blog contains writings on various topics of concern to music educators, particularly those who teach elementary and middle school. Musical Content: The musical content of these blog posts varies from choral warm ups to teaching techniques to advice on how to interact with administrators. Other information: Cadenza One also has a large sheet music service which allows for full score preview, and digital print purchasing.

Tips and Tricks to use in an elementary music room. Includes visuals for your room, resources and lesson ideas.

The San Francisco Kids website offers students many musical activities from listening, performing, composing and even conducting. I think that my elementary music students would love this site, and that it would also work well on the SMARTboard in class. I think the visuals would keep students engaged, and excited about music learning.

This site provides numerous rhythm and movement activities for young children with the help from rhythm sticks. Such activities help to develop fine motor skills and their sense of rhythm, which will greatly benefit early elementary students, as well as students with special needs.

These music education technology blogs are all about music in elementary schools. There are some wonderful ideas on how to get younger students involved in music using technology. The blogs are fun and insightful for teachers to help each other.

Free worksheets for elementary music. Has different ways to search for worksheets. Some are themed specifically for a seasons.