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This is a website for teaching and news on the  Orff method.  

AOSA homepage offering news, professional development, publications and resources for certified and non-certified Orff Schulwerk teachers. Learn what instruments suit your classroom, explore memberships and join a chapter near you.

I am a huge advocate of Orff curriculum, as I teach it in my own classroom. There is nothing better than seeing the kids enjoy their experience in music! This site offers opportunities for professional development, as well as resources on how to incorporate Orff tactics into your classroom.

AOSA advocates the Orff pedagogical approach to music learning. There are updates in terms of professional development opportunities, provides resources for teachers, and provides new materials for teaching.

The AOSA supports and advocates for music educators in developing the practice of the Orff-Schulwerk method of teaching. Members have access to online joiurnals as well as monthly magazines. As a member, you can also log onto the site to watch video lessons. This site has been very helpful to me.

This website is excellent for finding Orff PD, print resources, and classroom materials. There is also a nice section on music advocacy and membership.

Home to all things AOSA. Lesson plans, performance ideas, publications, resources, and professional development links are included for all AOSA members. Great resources to enhance your Orff classroom, as well as your Orff education.

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.

Find fun music games for elementary students to try on a computer or an e-pad.

PBS has great resources, especially their stuff on Jazz musicians. This page is fun, too. Kids can explore sound as it relates to up and down visually.

For anyone looking for musical games targeted towards the younger elementary grades, this is a great source to look to. It has all of your favorite PBS characters engaged in interesting musical activities such as painting, recording, and genre guessing. I'd recommend this site to all general music elementary teachers!

This website provides many musical games for children ages 3-6. There are games which include opportunities for children to create music, identify instrument sounds, and explore rhythms.

Some of these music games don't seem very educational to me, but I think that they offer a variety of musical style games which could be interested for my 5th graders. I think that the zen musical composition games aren't too "babyish" (as my students would say) for the 5th grade students. However, it's something I would need to explore more. 

This is a great resource of early childhood music students. There are numerous games that will introduce children to different sounds, different genres and even how to create music and be expressive with music.

This is a great resource of early childhood music students. There are numerous games that will introduce children to different sounds, different genres and even how to create music and be expressive with music.

This site's purpose is to allow younger children opportunity to interact with music through games and listening. I explored Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which I think would be perfect for my three year old. She can click using the arrows or mouse to create different sounds, and even explore different moods of music (happy, sad etc). The site also features other genres of music which is great to expose students to from an early age.

Simple music game website geared towards younger children. This would help allow young children to learn more about different instruments, especially ones they've seen on the TV show Daniel Tiger.

This is a wonderful, interactive website appropriate for grade levels Kindergarten through 5th grade, with "Jam Sessions" on various genres in music. It uses videos and interactive games to teach students about the instruments, rhythms, and lyrics often used in that particular genre. Genres include hip-hop, country, salsa, reggae, jazz, blues, classical, and rock and roll.

The National Core Arts Standards include all of the details of the new arts standards. These are broken into creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, and connecting categories. The website has an attached PDF for each standard with in depth information, philosophies, and ideas that shed light on the way that these can change the way we think and teach music.

The National Core Arts Standards include all of the details of the new arts standards. These are broken into creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, and connecting categories. The website has an attached PDF for each standard with in depth information, philosophies, and ideas that shed light on the way that these can change the way we think and teach music.

National Core Arts Standards is a resource guide to understanding and implementing the 2014 Arts Standards. This site has several handbooks to help clarify the new standards. It even has the option to customize your own handbook.

This is the go-to website for the 2014 National Core Arts Standards. Here, all arts educators can find official copies of content area standards, anchor standards, Model Cornerstone Assessments, history of the new standards and information on how to unpack and understand them. Some of the links for music standards route the viewer to www.nafme.org.

The San Francisco Symphony has created a way for composers and their work to come alive for students. Through this site, students can learn about various composers, musical techniques, musical history, and scores by way of working through "evidence" to arrive at conclusions about given pieces.

This source provides several lesson plans for teacher use as well as information about how music subject areas relate to music curricula. It provides several materials for teachers such as information on composers, information about Carnegie Hall, interactive sites, and historical information relating to music. Students and teachers are also able to use this site to learn about specific pieces such as "Symphonie Fantastique" and "The Rite of Spring." All of these different options make this site very resourceful for any music educator. There are also videos in which teachers talk about this site and how they have used the information provided by it in their teaching.