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Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. NAfME offers a plethora of resources for teachers and administration. This site can show you how to spread advocacy, current legislation that is being pushing on the Hill, lesson plans, or blogs to talk with fellow educators.

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. This site is helpful to read, connect, collaborate, and steal great idea through blogs. I always gain a sense of confidence when I see that other educators are having similar issues that I am but more importantly dealing with them in similar ways. Lesson planning, resources are easily accessed through blogs such as these!

From the Top is a PBS series that features young performers on the Carnegie Hall stage. Each clip includes background and an interview with Christopher O'Riley (host and sometimes piano accompanist). There are representations of almost every major instrument in band and orchestra as well as vocalists, choral ensembles, pianists, and guitarists. The young performers have selected pieces in a variety of styles and some have amazing background stories, including an Olympic skater and one about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The website also includes podcasts and a section for teachers that includes lesson plans to incorporate along with each episode. Clicking on From the Top at the bottom of the page gets you to more recent streaming videos from the show at fromthetop.org

PBS Kids has a ton of music games great for use with the early elementary level. These games are great to reinforce concepts being taught in the general elementary classroom.

This site has a wide variety of music games for young children. Children can learn about different instruments, create their own digital instrument and play music with and sing along with popular cartoon characters.

Several games that relate to elementary music learning that kids will love to play. These games are perfect as a time filler, or as part of a lesson. These games are best for young (K5-1) students.

Offers free resources and information on the history of Rock & Roll. It looks like there are online lesson plans and more resources available if one signs up for an account with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. There's also information on field trips and educational opportunities for those who are able to take students to the museum in Ohio.

I found this great site while looking for composer biographies for my second graders. This site has a wide range of free printable such as listening maps, word searches, games, and biographies. The information is appropriate for elementary school students.

A blog from the Harmony Road site which provides several tips for teaching a group piano course.

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.

This podcast is hosted by three middle school band directors in Texas. They conduct their podcast in between classes, and they discuss the ins and outs of band in their middle school classes. They provide several resources to use in sectional classes in middle school band and offer advice.

This website is for a podcast I have been listening to for a few years. The podcast is very interesting an informative. It give a different perspective on teaching band. Though I don't teach in a similar situation, things can be applied to my situation.

This podcast covers three band directors that all work in the same middle school. This discuss all different types of things but it is interesting to listen to how the three work together with their different classes. I have listen to this podcast in the past and their are even times she records her lessons with her students.

This blog is written by Lindsay Jervis, a Kodaly trained elementary music teacher. She shares her classroom ideas, successes and failures, and so much more. Each blog post is also linked to her TeachersPayTeachers website so that you can purchase the resources needed for a very affordable price.

Blog and resources focused around teaching through the Kodaly methodology. The author also has substantial resources available for purchase through teachers pay teachers.

A series of annotations on the home page of a Kodaly inspired blog. Features 2 articles.

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

The Yellow Brick Road website contains a blog full of free, well-designed, standard-based lesson plans as well as links to her store on www.teacherspayteachers.com. You can sign up for a newsletter on the website to get additional resources emailed to you. This site is geared towards K-6 general music.

This site has some great resources for ukulele and guitar learning in the classroom. These are free. The powerpoints are especially great because it is a step by step lesson to get students to play their instruments as quickly as possible (including little excerpts of songs in a different key). The rest of the site provides "easy" versions of popular songs for students to begin playing quickly. It was given to me in a conference session about using popular music to teach ukulele and guitar.

Teachnology is a great source for music lesson plans for all grade levels.

This site has many lessons and exercises that can help young musicians learn the basic notes as well as help experienced musicians develop their listening and theory skills further.

Andy Mullen's website is a gold mine for Music Learning Theory teachers. The Audiation Station provides video lessons to improve audiation tonally and rhythmically. He provides examples of each tonality with theoretical understanding as well as music videos. His explanations of MLT and audiation are straightforward and easy to understand.

This is a podcast for elementary music teachers. It shares lesson ideas and teaching strategies for experienced and novice music teachers.

This website offers worksheets, games, and tutorial videos for teachers to use with their younger piano students (K-6 to) to enhance student engagement and understanding. Some basic theory is taught in the form of colorful dittos for students, and other theory or technique is taught by game-based worksheets. There are a number of resources to accommodate major holidays and calendar events as well. There are many link that branch off into different other sites to facilitate the sharing of ideas with other educators. Videos are also included to demonstrate how various games and lessons should be structured for maximum efficiency.

The All-Star Orchestra, which is made up of "All-Stars" from various orchestras, produced content for Khan Academy. There is a wide-range of videos to watch from notes and rhythms, music history, conducting lessons, instrument demonstrations. This is a fantastic series with top musicians.

This is a great website for all jazz piano players. This is for the beginning jazz pianist or the experienced. It takes the reader/ student through a series of lessons that are chronological in nature. There are links to blogs and products that can help any level of piano player. The videos explaining jazz concepts are well laid out and very educational.

This website offers jazz tutorial videos for jazz pianists. It offers a beginners course where it outlines the basics and slowly increases the difficulty level. Coaching videos are available on a variety of skills and topics

This website is a great resource for learning to play jazz piano. It offers coaching and beginner courses. The site also provides professional development and support for educators.