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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 site offers teachers tools for recruiting music students as well as offers students information on the benefits of staying in music. Teachers and students are able to access video interviews of music students, facts and statistics about the academic benefits of music education and flyers to post in schools and communities

This website provides a historical archive of past drum and bugle corps scores, repertoire, and more.

Rubistar is a rubric maker that is free to use. If you sign up then you can save your rubrics, otherwise they will disappear after you leave the website. There are many templates available to use or alter, including different music templates for playing tests or concert critiques. You can download them to save or print right away.

An interactive website for students to experiment learning and listening to songs, learn and play a conducting game, and compose. Great for individual computer time.

The San Francisco Symphony's purpose in creating this site was to compile a variety of interactive games and resources for kids to access and explore orchestral instrumentation and sound. There are engaging music activities for all ages and a calendar of events for live exploration and learning.

This website hosts over 9,000 choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information. This is a fantastic resource for choral directors to browse and select music from.

Purpose of this resource: This webpage contains downloadable choral music that is in the public domain. Musical Content: The Choral Public Domain Library contains digital downloads (sheet music, midi files, and notation files) for choral works that are in the public domain. There is a large selection, and CPDL offers useful search features such as listing all musical settings of a text, searching by language, type of piece, and by musical era. Other information: This is a good resource for directors who do not have large music budgets, are looking to find different settings of specific texts, or are looking for music from a specific time period.

Access to FREE choral works in the public domain. Also, you can find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.

This shareware/freeware site has ways of keeping your audio collection better organized. The scripts are easy to access and make a huge difference in iTunes' ability keep files together.

This web is an excellent resource to study and practice music theory. Advanced students, college students and professional musicians can take tutorials in reading music, scales, harmonic functions, intervals, chords and musical forms. After taking the tutorials there are exercises available to practice. The annual membership is only $20. The web is available in english and spanish.

Great music theory resource including interactive tutorials, drills and exercises.

String Pedagogy Notebook is a website created by Michael Hopkins. It contains resources for teachers to help students learn basic and extended string techniques, how to program a concert, and games to help prepare students to start playing. He also has a companion Youtube channel for this website. It is an excellent resource.

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This website is a guide to string technique for students. Students and parents can find help with technique for each stringed instrument. Some of the categories addressed on the website include: posture, bow hold, left hand position, bow strokes, and vibrato.

Free trial of this program. It will add a simple accompaniment to your melody line as you sing it into the microphone.

This is a classical music website. Use this site to read the biographies of several amazing composers. Pay attention to the songs that they wrote and see if you recognize any.

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 is a website that we use at my school. We have sent the videos to all of the fifth grade teachers to allow their students to watch before we come and visit them at their school. We also post these videos on our band website for extra viewing. This is a great recruiting tool for middle school directors.

This webpage is part of a larger website dedicated to recruiting and retaining music students. Through a compilation of videos, stories, and information, students can see the benefits of participating in a school music program.

This podcast discusses a myriad of topics that band directors face at some point. James Divine approaches the topics with good humor, a great education, practicality, and experience.

This is the website for the Dallas Brass. The Dallas Brass have been around since 1983, and one of their primary functions is touring the country to visit schools. It also provides links to information on breathing exercises, efficiency exercises, intonation, and various other clinics. There is also information on how to book them to visit your school.

Database of sight-singing examples