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For teachers with a SmartBoard, this website gives free music games for use in the classroom.  Most of these games are appropriate for K-5 and cover a variety of music topics.  Intervals, pitch discrimination, listening, and basic music theory are the topics covered in these games.

I'll definitely have to explore these games on my own before taking them into the classroom. So far, some of them seem pretty advanced for my students. I also am not sure about how to play many of the games because of lack of directions. 

A collection of SmartBoard apps for use in a general music classroom setting. Focus is on beginner music theory with such topics as pitch discrimination, basic scales and song structure. Files are Flash-based and can be used on a SmartBoard seamlessly.

An online marketplace for teachers to buy and sell classroom resources. I have found many free and low cost worksheets, visuals and even lesson plans online. Resources include worksheets for pitch, rhythm, composers, specific songs, like the Star Spangled Banner and so much more. A valuable resource for a teacher who does not want to "recreate the wheel" OR who is creative and likes to "recreate the wheel" and earn a little cash doing it!

Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), is a great resource for lesson plans, bulletin boards, and so much more! While most resources are free, some you do have to pay for.

This would be a great source for teachers who need the documentation for certain topics. This website provides every grade level, along with every subject being provided. There are lots of information on this source for free, and there are also many sources that are not free. But it depends on what you want or need. The purpose of this sources is to give teachers a wide range of things, that they may need in their classrooms.

This music teacher has great ideas. Her blog is a great choice to add fresh ideas to your classroom.

This is a music teacher blog with great teaching strategies, lesson ideas, bulletin board suggestions and general music support. This is a k-5 general music classroom blog with some choral and band mixed in.

This is an excellent music education blog to follow and is updated frequently by a music teacher! I love following Mrs. King's blog because she provides new ways to teach elementary music via games, manipulatives and much more.

Purpose of this resource: This is an excellent source of information, sheet music, lesson plans, and worksheets for the elementary music educator. Musical Content: This webpage contains composer biographies, sheet music downloads, worksheets, music theory games, music dictionaries, private teacher directories and more. The content is geared toward students in grades K-6. Other information: This webpage has excellent, free content, but some of the advertisements on the page may by inappropriate for display in class. Educators should find the resource they need and then print out hard copies for use in class.

This website has a lot of lesson plan ideas, theory worksheets, games, piano music and more all for free (mostly). I like to use this website if I want to find a new way to teach an old music concept.

This is a fantastic blog with great resources for general music classroom. It also contains printable assessments and whiteboard activities for K-6 elementary music. 

This website is an awesome resource for elementary music teachers. Aileen gives lesson planning advice, tours of her classroom, ideas for assessment, and program ideas. Her site also includes freebies (lesson plans, assessment tools, and printable worksheets). She also includes links to her podcast and her Teachers Pay Teachers store, which is full of quality resources.

Mrs. Miracle's website is a very well-laid out website which could serve as a template for a teacher looking to do a similar website. She has a podcast, a way to be contacted for teacher interactions, a link to a store where teachers share materials, and informative posts with teaching ideas. Most ideas are geared toward the third-grade level.

This includes interactive websites related to Music that work great on the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard.  This will be great for my music appreciation class.  I will also share the information with the elementary music teacher.  

This includes interactive websites related to Music that work great on the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard.  This will be great for my music appreciation class.  I will also share the information with the elementary music teacher.

Collection of 428 folk songs organized by categories (origin, subject, grade level, melodic, elements, sequence of concepts, etc.) The songs follow Kodály Method sequence of introducing music concepts/elements. Excellent resource for elementary teacher.

A database of folk songs catalogued for the Kodaly methodology. Songs are searchable by elements of music, name, and more.

This is the entire American Folk Song collection. This excellent resource can be used by educators to print out folk songs to use to teach their students specific music skills such as singing, audiating, pitch, and rhythm. The website even gives activity ideas to use for each specific song.

Music teacher created and relative blog for elementary and secondary levels. Structured around the Orff Schulwerk philosophy, this resource provides musical material categorized and downloadable to suit individual instructional needs. Find resources for action sogs, assessments, holidays, body percussion, seasons, composition, centers, world music, lesson planning, movement and much more!

This website is a game designed to introduce instruments to students (K-5) in a fun and interactive way.  Benjamin Britten's composition "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" is used as the basis for this adventure.

This is a fun, interactive website that helps students get to know the instruments, the set up of a professional ensemble, different genres, and musical roles.

This website is a game developed by Carnegie Hall that helps younger students learn the instruments of the orchestra. The game uses Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. This interactive game helps students understand the layout of an orchestra, the ranges of the individual instruments, and how they sound individually and together in an ensemble. This is an excellent tool for elementary music!

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.

Best Practices for Children's Choir is a podcast with Matthew Parker discussing his best practices when working with a children's choir. The discussion content ranges from choosing music to engaging in warm-ups. Matthew also shares his favorite octavos, composers/arrangers, warm-ups, and tips when choosing music. This is very useful information and a great resource to use when working with your elementary and/or middle school choir.

Podcast and synopsis of best practices for children's choir. I want to reference this if the world works my way and places me in an elementary school next year.

This is a flash-based musical game site that has several different activities that are appropriate for elementary students. The site is very engaging for that age student and easy to navigate.

This is a cloud-based music education software with lesson plans, project ideas, audio, video, games, and other special activities to assist teaching new content from note values, line and space identification, world music, and other content.

Curriculum for music classes through grade 8.

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.

A compilation of play-along music recordings for students to use Boomwhackers or other similar instruments. Musication provides several free videos for elementary and middle school music students to learn to play along with the melody or chord structure of a given song. New videos are added often and students definitely enjoy playing along.

Musication has play-a-long videos for boomwhackers, hand bells, and simple percussion instruments. The videos are color coded and often have varying levels of difficulty. It provides a visual for melodic direction, durations, and harmony that helps students to see, hear, and experience music in a variety of ways.

This is a blog by Beth Jahn, an elementary music teacher who wanted to explore more ways to incorporate technology in her classroom. Although it has not been updated in some time, the resources she lists for iDevices are very helpful. She also goes into detail about her lesson plan ideas and how you could use apps with them.

Here is as blog that discuss ways to in corporate music technology in the elementary music classroom. There are various low cost and free apps teachers can download for classroom usage for practice and instruction.

Mainly Music is a compilation of resources for the elementary music teacher. In addition to folk song resources, there is a separate list with folk dancing resources.

Mainly Music is a compilation of resources for the elementary music teacher. In addition to folk song resources, there is a separate list with folk dancing resources.

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.

A blog for the elementary music teacher and a source for lesson plans, classroom management tips and creative ideas.

Help with staying organized for music lesson plans and meet the needs of a music educator.

A great music education blog with tons of free songs, lesson plans and other resources perfect for the elementary general music classroom. Posts are organized by date, category, grade level and subject area.

This is a website that seems to have an endless supply of resources!  There are many multicultural resources, opportunities to link up with other elementary music teachers, as well as many links to free copies of songs and lessons.

This website lists several resources for songs and sheet music, music history, Orff resources, music theory, and music projects for students in the general music classroom.