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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.

This website is a resource for a variety of childrens music. It allows you access to artists, recordings, stories, etc. that you could use in early childhood classrooms.

This website is a resource for a variety of childrens music. It allows you access to artists, recordings, stories, etc. that you could use in early childhood classrooms.

This website has animated videos of songs, many with karaoke style lyrics to help reinforce early literacy. These resources are especially great for prek or kindergarten classes.

This website from PBS gives students (K-5) an opportunity to play games associated with different types of music.  Art and music are combined in some instances to appeal to this age group.  Non-traditional composition is also covered in these games in particular genres of music.

This is a fun and interactive way for pre-school or lower elementary aged kids to learn about music. They can explore many timbres of sound with familiar characters. I use this with my own children and it's a hit!

This website has a wide selection of music games for the young musician. Games are flash-based and are in a variety of musical genres. Many games require the user to compose in a specific style. Would work well on Chromebooks or computer lab.

Arts Edge provides a list of 5 traditional Folk Dances appropriate for grades K-3. The directions are simple and easy to follow. No dance experience needed!

Arts Edge provides a list of 5 traditional Folk Dances appropriate for grades K-3. The directions are simple and easy to follow. No dance experience needed!

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.

A very basic interactive site for introducing composition, and specifically the treble clef staff, to students in early elementary.

This page lends itself as a particularly valuable resource, especially for those whose weakness is intonation. In it, you will find philosophies, phrases, analogies, activities, and what the author terms "common threads" for approaching the aforementioned topic with your students. Among the most popular suggestions are singing, practicing characteristic tone quality, and listening down, or back, to the tuba section--all of which can and should be practiced in the early stages of a student's musical development.

Podcast hosted by four music educators who are early in their teaching careers. Various topics of use to a new music teacher as each host has a different background and teaching assignment (choral, band, strings).

This website provides valuable resources for piano teachers. It can be used as a group class or private teaching. It contains worksheets, games, sheet music (easy and intermediate level). It is suitable for early childhood and elementary students.

This YouTube channel has videos for early beginning band students. It has tutorials on how to make your first sound as well videos of songs students can learn by ear.

The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.

The Gordon Institute for Music Learning includes abundant information about Music Learning Theory, how it works, and the research behind it. There is information about aptitude, sequencing, and audiation.

The Gordon Institute for Music Learning website is a simple and easy-to-use website. You can find the schedule of upcoming seminars to attend around the United States, find a nearby chapter to join and read Gordon's Biography. The best information for music educators is under "Music Learning Theory." Here you can read about the Gordon method, audiation, musical aptitude, methodology, learning sequence, classroom activities, early childhood and instructional applications.

Improvisation in Early Elementary General Music. This article explores how to improvise with your young students, starting with rhythm and then moving on to pitch. There are several singing games referenced with explanations on how to play and how to relate it to improvisation. This article breaks down the process of teaching improvisation and takes the initial fear out of it.

More positive affirmation that can help when slogging through the creative process. This has been a helpful reminder in November and early March when the glimmer of the performance seems so far away.

This wiki provides ideas for having students compose video-game-inspired music in the classroom.

This looks like a composition app that was designed with child development in mind. Can't wait to try it!

Excellent articles on how to work with adolescent voices are on this site, including much insight on helping boys deal with changing voices.

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 Learning Community is a site for music educators and music students that includes a great deal of information on computer-based learning. Included are games and activities that teach theory and build aural skills. There is a free trial but the site requires a membership fee.

This website offers hundreds of interactive games to teach students music theory, rhythms, ear-training, sight-reading, and notation analysis. Designed to make learning musical concepts and take-home assignments more fun and engaging, these games are broken down into various levels for students. Lower levels can be effective for early elementary students, and higher levels can be effective for students in high school. Games are colorful and entertaining, and they list certain scores that students should strive to achieve. Most games have a lesson version, a practice version, and a quiz version. Teachers can track scores and data of individual students to see strengths and weaknesses.

This website has many games that can be used to learn various musical concepts. Some games are free, but there are more games with the paid subscription. You can pay monthly or yearly and it can be used for 5 to 50 people.