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This is an online music store with materials, instruments, and equipment for both teacher and student. They are a reputable retailer in the music industry and a reliable resource for music education. They offer quality materials at affordable prices with prompt service and good customer support.

This is an online retail store for instruments and music audio equipment. The customer service department in this franchise is extremely helpful to music teachers who need to purchase equipment but are not sure exactly what their needs are. They are very knowledgeable about today's audio equipment, and their prices are competitive in the industry.

This is a great resource to start out any student playing a low brass instrument.

This can be used by any educator including music educators to create flashcards for their students and do a class review. This would be great for a music vocabulary quiz or something similar such as instrument families.

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.

Improvisation games that can be used for icebreakers and teambuilding exercises. They are mostly non-musical, or at least they do not require musical instruments, only the voice. Could be a good introduction to musical improvisation unit.

This page provides links to the All Star Orchestra education pages on Kahn Academy. Topics include masterworks, theory, instruments, and even conducting. This is a great resource to be used in the classroom.

This is an excellent blog post detailing the steps for utilizing and more specifically creating a Kahoot game. Kahoot can be used for reviewing test questions, instrument families, pitch names, or rhythmic examples. This article details tips and tricks for creating a game for your class.

Great source for a wide range of quizzes. There are a lot of options ranging from learning different instruments, note identification, rhythm practice, musician quizzes and more. There are lots of fun games that kids really enjoy.

On this site, one can explore all knowledge needed to learn correct playing practices on the recorder. Along with fingering charts and sample music, one can find articles on overall playing technique, mechanics and instrument choice.

Orcehstralbassoon.com is a website that answers a plethora of questions about the bassoon. The bassoon is an instrument that several band directors lack in their own ensembles. When they do have them, many of them do no know how to answer pertinent questions about how to properly play it. This website offers recordings, orchestral excerpts, fingering charts, pedagogical methods, history, and tips on reed making. This is an extremely valuable site for the school band director or orchestral director that wishes to promote good double reed players in their ensemble.

This website is a collection of blog posts by Bret Pimentel about woodwind playing and teaching. The site is easily searchable by instrument or keyword. There are also links to resources that can be used for woodwind teaching.

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.

This is a fun and interactive way for pre-school or lower elementary aged kids to learn about music. They can explore many timbres of sound with familiar characters. I use this with my own children and it's a hit!

This website has a wide selection of music games for the young musician. Games are flash-based and are in a variety of musical genres. Many games require the user to compose in a specific style. Would work well on Chromebooks or computer lab.

The user picks a style of music to compose within. Then short instrumental and vocal loops are available to add to the accompaniment. The graphics are a bit outdated looking, and some of the loops are lame, but the Blues one is fun.

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.

This website describes a curriculum for teaching rhythm to instrumental music students. It includes playing exercises, assessments, theory information, games, and formal articles.

This resource has many method books available with which students can practice along. The practice tools can find and sort music by type, series, instrument, and more.

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.

Amazing music listening resource for music teachers. The cool thing about this website is that it shows how music can unify and connect people all over the world. It contains videos of a common song being recorded by musicians all over the world on a variety of different world instruments. Great resource for world music drumming. Many videos are free, but some require a subscription now.