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A great article showing how to take a well known tune and teach students how to compose their own melody. The article goes through the process of how to teach it. First you help students to write a base line, have them improvise a rhythm, then they can discover the notes of each chord, and write their own melody using chord tones.

Great resource for music history. With a new audio show being posted every week and past shows being available, there is a lot available and will continue to be available. Has short audio to keep children's attention and has an accompanying worksheet to help facilitate optimal listening and understanding.

This site allows you to meta-search images for course design pages. In putting together Canvas or Google Classroom pages having resources for non-proprietary digital images is a huge help.

From re-stringing a french horn rotary valve to simply teaching your brass students how to properly breath when they are playing this website has it all. This website will be a huge help when starting out new brass students as well as teaching more advanced techniques.

This is a youtube tutorial on how to create a Jeopardy game using MS Powerpoint. I remember playing these throughout school and they definitely helped with reviewing.

These are the new 2014 anchor standards. I reference these often to make sure my lessons are not just meeting district standards, but national standards as well. They also help give me ideas if I am struggling with lesson ideas.

This resource is a web-based program which can generate polyrhythms. The graphics help visualize the rhythms in a pleasing and logical way. Specific polyrhythms can be generated in many layers, or random ones may also be generated within specific parameters. This might be used as an enrichment tool for aural skills courses.

This website is a great resource for K-5 music.  There are jokes, games, and information regarding famous composers, including recordings of famous pieces of music.  This can be used by a classroom of kids in a computer lab, or by a teacher for lesson planning.

Classics for Kids is a resources for teachers, parents, and children. It provides lesson plans, music games and interactive links, a podcast, tips for parents, and information about composers, instruments, and music history. The lesson plans (written by my former music education professor, Dr. Kay Edwards) are standards-based and incorporate elements of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze.

This website is for elementary/general music education. It is a resources for lesson plans on composers, music theory, and music listening.

This site provides a history of jazz music and its function. It provides sound clips, video clips of jazz musicians, and helpful tips and information relating to jazz music in America.

This site is a discussion with many different music educators and provides helpful hints, tools, and suggestions on how to establish and maintain a successful marching band.

This website contains lessons and online music theory quizzes such as note, interval, chord, and key signature identification, as well as ear training exercises. There is also an exercise customizer that allows teachers to create and customize quizzes to give students. These quizzes can be logged and results can be recorded.

This website contains lessons and online music theory quizzes such as note, interval, chord, and key signature identification, as well as ear training exercises. There is also an exercise customizer that allows teachers to create and customize quizzes to give students. These quizzes can be logged and results can be recorded.

This website is a valuable tool to help students enhance their music reading skills. It provides a series of exercises and lessons from basic theory to advanced theory and aural skills.

This is a kids Jazz website. Learn a little bit about the history of jazz, where it comes from and the basic form that goes with it. Play games and watch videos to help internalize the jazz form.

This is a website that provides free music graphics. This is a helpful tool for publications, projects, presentations, programs, and more.

This website provides information related to jazz and jazz history. This website, under the education tab, provides multiple jazz recordings. Additionally, lesson plans are provided to help align the tracks with classroom activities.

This site is a collection and review of multiple music technology resources. There are also curriculum, rubric and assessments designs to help music educator develop instructional design.

This site is something that most music educators today are familiar with; Finale. it provides a free download of Finale as well as blogs and training tutorials about how to use the program. The purpose of Finale is to all teachers (and students!) to create their own music. It can be anything from an original composition to an arrangement of a familiar song to a replica of something that has already been created. Not only does finale help build musical creativity, but it also teaches students about the basics of music notation. This site is a great source because it takes you step-by-step through downloading Finale, making it more user-friendly, especially for those that might not have as much experience with more recent music software.

This is the official website of the new national music standards. It includes the standards for different types of music classes and grade levels and will be helpful for designing lesson plans.

This is a wonderful string specific blog that has information for beginniners up through making that audition for college. It has advice to help educators with their classes as well as players make the most of their performance.

Another string specific music website. It is a wonderful resource for orchestra students of all levels and their educators. It covers the basics of how to hold an instrument as well as other specific advanced techniques.There are also resources to help with practicing and repertoire.

A website designed to help share YouTube and Vimeo videos with children. Safeshare creates links that are shareable that provide access to the video without the ads or suggestions, removing the danger of accidental inappropriate content.