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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 podcast has a technology focus and puts out weekly episodes. There are over 73 episodes with topics that vary from apps to websites to equipment.

The Music Tech Teacher Podcast hosted by Katie Wardrobe has become one of my favorite podcasts. I am teaching music technology for the first time this year and various episodes regarding productivity for music teachers and using technology such as iPads in the classroom are extremely helpful.

This is a podcast for music technology teachers, which is good for anyone who is looking to get into the study of technology when it comes to music. The podcast are discussions of many topics, to give tips on how how to be come better at the specific topic.

This website contains PDFs of wind band music that is available for free to download in the United States. The music is public domain or available via a Creative Commons license. This is very helpful with finding older music or replacing parts, especially with music that is out of print.

This band music library includes pieces that were written for American Town Bands. American Town Bands used to be so popular that almost every town in my region of Massachusetts had one. Sadly, these bands have been slowly dying out. Thanks to this website, you can find free music that those bands used to play and revive them with your ensembles.

The Rhythm Trainer is a simple flash-based game that reinforces rhythm concepts. Students can either enter the rhythm that they hear, or choose the correct audio that matches the rhythm they see. Each example is four beats long, and there are a limited number of rhythms available. Students can select any or all of the 8 rhythms available to practice. Results can be emailed to the student's teacher.

The Rhythm trainer is another great source for helping students learn the principles of ear training. Teachers can load listening examples of varying rhythmic figures which students can respond to picking the examples they think best fit. Students can choose two modes of rhythm training which either provide them with choices for answers or require them build their answers based on the specific rhythms they are being trained on. The Rhythm Trainer does require the use Adobe Flash Player in order to play the examples but can be great for anyone teaching or learning the very basics developing good ear training skills.

This is a great tool to have to teach students rhythm. I use this to teach my private students to strengthen their ability to read rhythm. They find this website quite fun, and they enjoy all of the practices in which assign.

ACDA website with links to choral journals, library archives, festival information and more.

This is the official ACDA website. You can find information about conferences, as well as access resources and connect with colleagues. If you teach choir, being a member of ACDA is a must.

The purpose of this resource is wide and varied. Not only does this resource provide choral music educators with a professional development community but also looks at a range of topic regarding singing both in the individual and choral setting. Membership in this organization does cost a fee but there are many benefits for music educators who teach choir.

I first became familiar with this resource while enrolled in the Creative Thinking course, and it has tremendously helped me fine tune my lessons and procedures. The National Core Arts Standards is a resource that every Music Educator should be familiar with. Educators can reference this resource often to make sure that their planning and activities align with these standards.

The purpose of this resource is to provide a detailed breakdown of the National Core Art Standards. Here you can find standards by subject and strand as well as model cornerstone assessments and student work. This is especially useful if your school district aligns to national standards.

League of American Orchestras is a site for educators, professional musicians and students can explore. Teachers can look at advocacy and the government to find out what is happening in legislation. There is a career center for teachers and professional musicians who are looking to perform. Everyone can learn about Learning and Leadership development of students and teachers. The Knowledge, Research and Innovation tab is great as it is the latest research happening. You can also find conferences, meetings, journals, conducting, composing and performing tab.

This site is a great resource for orchestra teachers. The purpose of this resource is to provide information about the current state of music programs and opportunities for orchestral students. The content of this site is mainly articles and registration links for different conferences. There are also links to webinars, fellowships, etc. as well as current issues revolving around orchestral music/education. Some sources particularly helpful for teachers are a link with interesting facts about orchestra and articles about how to reach out to bigger audiences. It offers a subscription for "Symphony" Magazine and provdes information about composing, conducting, and performing, all major elements or any music education program.

This website has resources for orchestra students. Students can find practice and performance tips, learn about local and famous orchestras and musicians, and find resources for their specific instruments.

Hooktheory is a DAW that allows musicians to create music based on chords. They offer access to two volumes of music theory book for students and teachers, as well as the ability to create assignments and keep a grade book for music teachers.

This page provides a list of repertoire that is suitable for young bands. Along with the titles, arrangers and publisher, it provides a brief description as well as length of piece. This is a great resource with young bands wanting to play higher level repertoire. 

This PDF list of standard repertoire for intermediate bands includes composer, title, difficulty level, and description about the primary thematic and musical concepts of each piece.

It is a good resource when choosing your middle school concert repertoire.

A cloud-based DAW, free and easy to use. It is very similar to GarageBand, and users with little music knowledge can easily create quality compositions by dragging and dropping loops. Users can compose music, record live instruments and voice tracks, use MIDI controllers, and export projects to many known file types.

Soundtrap is a browser-based DAW that allows users to create and collaborate compositions or podcasts. Soundtrap offers a paid subscription allowing teachers to setup a private classroom and monitor/grade/comment on their students work. This DAW can be used for a plethora of creative tasks in music. It's primary affordance is that it is browser-based and compositions are saved via cloud storage.

Soundtrap is a free, cloud-based DAW, with a library of looped sounds and the ability to enter new audio. Users can also easily collaborate with others, and the program can be accessed via computer, tablet, or cell phone. It provides a user-friendly experience that music students can work with to express creativity through composition.

This is a great resource for any percussionist looking to improve or refine their rudiments. Vic Firth has put together a website that includes demonstration videos, play-along tracks at different tempi, and lessons for each rudiment. As a non-percussionist, this website helps my percussionists with rudiments more than I can.

This link is the Vic Firth page over the 40 Essential Rudiments for snare drum. Vic Firth is a fantastic resource for anything percussion, but their rudiment page is my favorite because it breaks down each rudiment for the students and they demonstrate each rudiment open-closed-open. This is a great resource to to send with students so they are sure to practice rudiments correctly on their own.

This site includes several music lessons followed by games and quizzes for practice. There are other resources available on the site for teachers, parents, and students. The site includes a blog and a contact page.

This website provides FREE sheet music for use in the classroom, private lessons, or ceremonial events. Students can sing or play with the built in playback features or print the music. Tempo and accompaniment can be adjusted and added. It would be perfect for sight-reading exercises or event use.

This is a great resource for free sheet music for students. It offers a variety of instrumental music of all kinds of genres. Students can also use this website to explore music on their own and develop sight-reading skills.

This website offers free sheet music for a variety of different instruments. Students can search for music based on instrument or song. The content for this website is sheet music.

This website is an in depth resource for woodwind fingerings, offering a comprehensive list of fingerings for instruments ranging from clarinet to sarrusophone!

This resource provides fingering charts for all woodwind instruments and would be a great resource for predominately brass music educators and private teachers 

The Woodwind Fingering Guide provides finger charts for all woodwind instruments. They even include fingering charts for rare instruments like the Sorrusophone and the Charanga Flute.

This website is the Chrome Music lab. There are activities to explore all the elements of music. Some of the activities are composition related. There are visual representations of sound as well. You need to use the Chrome browser for them to work. My students really enjoyed this site.

This is a site that helps music teachers teach across the curriculum by connecting music to math, science, and art. These are online experiments that are interactive and have explanations behind the experiments.

Created by Google developers, this site contains various apps associated with different musical elements with the premise that users would simply explore. Songmaker and Kadinsky allow the creation of musical ideas while others explore rhythm chords, and how sound functions. Each app is extremely easy to use and is beneficial in any general music setting.

Folk Song Collection that may be used to help find songs for teaching almost any musical concept. Primary and Secondary Sources with authentic notation and referenced material.

The American Folk Song Collection is a website that music educators can use to search for hundreds of folk songs. Each song includes a PDF of lyrics, melody, game/dance directions, song analysis, rhythms, and original source (some also include recordings). The website also includes basic information about the Kodaly approach.

The Kodaly Center website is a valuable resource for all music teachers and especially those teaching elementary general music. The website contains videos about the history and philosophy of Kodaly, as well as recent news and upcoming events being held at the center. The most impressive feature of this site is the pubic domain library of songs and the precise ways they are categorized. Songs can be searched and categorized by: Origin, region, state, subject, song type, grade level, tonal center, scale, tone set, melodic range, melodic element, melodic motive, rhythmic element, meter, form, formal analysis and game type. Once you find a song you can see all of this detailed information as well as (in most cases) listen to the song, often sung by a child or group of children.

This site helps build rubrics used for assessments.  You can design your own rubrics for playing tests, performances and projects.

This is a website that links to various rubric-creating formats, designed to save educators time and effort in making more visually-appealing assessment tools. There is a brief article that discusses the benefits of implementing a rubric in assessment, and there are multiple links to other articles that discuss the pros and cons of utilizing rubrics at various levels of education. Within the initial article are 25 different formats, some more topic-specific than others, to generate rubrics with pictures and descriptions. It is easy to use and much more efficient than creating a rubric from scratch.

The San Francisco Symphony kids website is filled with Fun & Games with music. Children will be able to listen, play, perform, conduct, and compose. This is a friendly and interactive way to engage youth.

Noteflight is another web-based software for music notation. It is user friendly, and there are several tutorial videos out there to help anyone needed to know how to use it. You can embed and share your compositions, and also export them as files. It is like Finale, but has a lot less options, which makes it easier and less overwhelming for use in the classroom

Music Notation Arranging or Composing music

The purpose of this website is to allow you to browse upcoming educational workshops and events scheduled to take place at the annual Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra, and Music Conference in December. The content focuses on the schedule of events which shows the most recent upcoming material on specific teaching strategies/pedagogies and how to implement these in the classroom. It allows you to sign up as an exhibitor, advertiser or attendee. It also allows you to sign up your performing ensembles to showcase their talent or to feature newly published music. Exhibits include workshops, musical equipment/instruments, and other material to help music educators and musicians.

This site is for the Midwest clinic. The Midwest clinic is an international clinic for music educators. I have been 4 times and every time it is so much ti take it and I have left with tangible and intangible thing that have increased my knowledge and made me a better teacher.

This website is the home page for the international band and orchestra conference. The page also offers professional development resources.