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This is Jen Bailey's TPT store, and it is loaded with amazing material for Music Learning Theory teachers, as well as teachers who follow other methodologies. She has many resources for use with a projector or smart board, and other things that are printable. There are resources for assessment, audiation enhancement, movement, literature, holidays, rhythm games, notation resources, songs, recorder, ukulele, and so much more!

Natasha Sigmund is a fabulous Music Learning Theory teacher, and she has created a lot of great resources on her TPT store. These are great to use as printables or with a projector/smart board. Her material is accessible and engaging for students of all ages.

This is Jen Bailey's website. She blogs about relevant topics for the elementary general music teacher. She posts about content and resources that are very useful for K-5 music. She is a talented musician and teacher who identifies strongly with Music Learning Theory.

Adam Neely explores unique and interesting ideas that pertain to music theory, composition, and instrument technique. He has an interesting take on particular musical concepts and offers various ways in which they can be explored creatively.

Adam Neely explores unique and interesting ideas that pertain to music theory, composition, and instrument technique. He has an interesting take on particular musical concepts and offers various ways in which they can be explored creatively.

This site offers simple images to create flashcards, theory worksheets, and games. It also includes music-related images that can be included in documents and materials.

Music Matters is a blog that allows users/readers to utilize websites, information, and activities for students in music. There are sources for educators that include training, games, and blogs that help students grow as musicians and music learners. This website includes information for Music History, Music Theory, pedagogy for instruments, music organizations, and music education conferences. Each source includes guides, activities, and blogs for the reader to navigate to a certain website or community, and reflect on what has been read or what is happening in the world of music.

This website gives the user practice in note names,key signatures, intervals, and major and minor triads in root and inverted position. The website also gives you practice on note identification on the guitar.

Fun website with several ear training and music theory based games. Good for a variety of grade levels.

8notes musical test a fun way to track student progress on varying areas that help with music theory and ear training. These are basic free exercises that can help students increase their own skills.

Learning chords for older piano students can be tedious until they can effectively play them in a song. The use of technology could help students learn this necessary music theory skill and make it more enjoyable. 

This website helps to assist teachers in finding example lesson plans for their subject matter.  The site also allows students to search and find a teacher for their instrument.  I would benefit from the lesson plans feature particularly for music theory.

Good resource for anything in music education. Marching band, general music, guitar, music theory, and composition links can be found on this website. Students can interact with games, videos, worksheets, and lessons. Teachers are able to get ideas, lesson plans, and units.

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.

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.

Purpose of Resource: This website can be used to identify the chord progressions for many modern songs. The website can also be used to transpose chord progressions into various keys. Specific Musical Content: This webpage contains the chord progressions of over 5,000 songs. The original song can be played as well as just the chord progression on a piano. Each song can be transposed into different keys and modes while preserving sonic relationships. Theory Tab also can display the chords being played on a piano keyboard or a Guitar Fretboard. Other Information: This could be a great resource for any composition units, as well as for directors looking to incorporate popular music, or arrange popular tunes for their ensembles.

This YouTube channel has many great videos about music history and theory. These short videos provide an excellent way to help students learn using multi-media, appealing to the visual learner.

YouTube channel with many educational videos about music

This is a website that has a store, blog, and information for both students and teachers. On this website there is information about helping students compose, rhythm, teaching, music games, theory, and so much more. This is an excellent resource that will help teachers teach their students to compose and expand their own knowledge of teaching. 

This link provides a brief history and understanding of jazz and it's connection with jazz education.

This site has a number of resources including links to books, articles, festivals and events dealing with jazz history and education.

This is an excellent resource for jazz educators.  It includes jazz history information, links, resources, books, festival information, jazz theory, and much more.  

This British website supports music education and allows the reader to to search articles on British Music Education. The purpose is to give readers access to thousands or articles from around the world, delivering journal content on the internet. This site includes news on music education, articles about young musician scholarships, blogs for different music societies, and interaction among theory and technology for music educators.

This Jazz Transcriptions site not only houses many jazz transcriptions for all instrument, but it provides links to other transcription sites for additional material.  Students can access these transcriptions to practice jazz, sight reading, and for analyzing jazz theory.  I use jazz when practicing sight reading due to the added difficulty of syncopated rhythms and accidentals.