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This project is committed with providing children of underserved populations with computers that include a series of open software, including Csound (a powerful audio software for algorithmic composition).

This website deals with World Music for children. There are projects, audio links, sheet music for purchase, and coloring/information sheets.

This website introduces students to musical cultures around the world.

This website has opportunities for students to experience World Music. There is a subscription if you want to use the website for more opportunities.

Children all around the world engage in musical play. This website contains authentic video performances of singing games from around the world. Jules Oosterwegel was inspired to capture and gather these musical performances during his travels, believing in the importance of sharing these songs and games with others.

This website is a compilation of world music that is appropriate for children to learn about and perform. The library is vast, and is easily searchable by continent, country, and language. There are audio clips and linked videos, as well as several English translations. It's a great resource to explore world music and culture.

I cannot think of a better introduction to songs and rhythm for children than by the music of Hap Palmer. His cds and dvds effortlessly teach students how to sing very melodic songs and how to perform essential rhythms, among many other musical concepts.

Daria World Music for Children is a colorful and vibrant website that teaches students about all aspects of world music. It has many multimedia resources from listening to the sound of an instrument to actually learning how to make one. Definitely a great resource!

I've used this site with students playing boomwhackers along with the animation. It's very easy for children to use and provides a great tool for visually representing sound and fractions (both in relation to the tube length and also the beats in the measures).

This podcast series is about the role that music plays in the cognitive development of children and its importance in education. 

Roger Day is one of my all time, favorite children's musicians. This is his official website and features videos, lyrics to songs, booking information and merchandise. His newest CD, Marsh Mud Madness stays true to his educational platform and teaches children interesting facts about wetlands in a fun, exciting, musical way.

This is a blog for music education and technology. It contains information about virtual ensembles and projects that can be used to help incorporate technology in the classroom. This is a good resources for music educators to find new projects and information about virtual ensembles. These will help to motivate the children and allow them with opportunities for collaboration.

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.

Groovy Jungle is a Sibelius software specifically for teaching music to small children.  It is available through musicians friend.com website.

Part of the Resources for Early Childhood, the sound project is one of many resources for early childhood teaching and learning included in this website. The sound project was conduced by Ohio educators with 18 to 30 month children on sound exploration.

A music teacher blogs an idea for evaluation for kindergarteners. Mine don't do a winter concert, so I'd have to edit it, but another great way to incorporate evaluating (responding) with music in a simple way that young children can understand.

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.

This is another Orchestra-sponsored website with fun activities for kids. It can be used during spare time, or units could be developed around it. The game I found which I liked in particular is called "Beethoven's Baseball". You get to pick your composer team, and then click on Beethoven to throw the "pitches", which are questions. The game keeps your score and is interactive. The website also has a "listen by composer" section, as well as other instructions for activities including making your own instrument.

This site provides insight on instrument timbres, symbol and note recognition, reinforce knowledge on composers, and more! In terms of composers, this site covers composers from as early as the Renaissance era to present.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra's website specifically for kids. Provides games, activities, and several listening examples. Can be used at home or in the classroom.

Music Education resource that has free and low cost downloadable games for children to use that reinforce musical concepts. My 3rd and 4th graders love Staff Wars. My younger kids always ask when they are going to get to play. There are other great games, too.

MuseScore3 is full-featured, open-source music notation software. This software is installed directly on a computer, and has compatible versions for PC, Mac, and Linux operating systems. There is no online or "cloud" version of this software. Although MuseScore is free, it is a professional music notation alternative to Finale and Sibelius and is capable of producing high-quality musical scores in a variety of formats. MuseScore also has full capability to produce audio playback, export to audio, and generate MIDI files.

MuseScore is a free music notation program that is easy to use and can produce easy to read, high quality sheet music for your ensembles. The interface is similar to other notation programs that you need to pay for. I have been using MuseScore to create etudes and warmups for my ensemble classes.

MuseScore is a music composition and notation software used to write/notate music. It requires the user to download and install the application on their system. This application is easily accessible and is free of charge. It is a software that is updated almost every month to make the features better. Muse Score has an easy to use interface and is a good tool to use in class for children to write down their simple compositions. Students are able to play back their compositions to their classmates, print them out, and/or even share them online. While using MuseScore, students learn many different musical concepts like dynamics, timbre, form, texture, structure, melody, repetition, phrasing, rhythm, tone, to mention but a few. MuseScore enhances the musicianship of students.

This website has a series of games meant for younger children to understand sound, rhythm, mood, and sounds of the orchestra. I would use this in my beginning band classes, even though it's middle school, just to ensure that they understand instrument sounds.

This is a good perspective on why it's important to teach music to children at a very young age. The speaker feels it is also necessary to have children trained by a professional teacher.

This is a Ted Talk which deals with the value of music education, specifically highlighting the important connection between creativity (imagination) and music. Richard Gill, a music educator, delivers the talk, and includes some keyboard demonstration.