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This is a great historical resource for jazz music. Includes biographies, decade-by-decade history, and an interactive jazz performing section.

Purpose of this resource: This blog contains writings on various topics of concern to music educators, particularly those who teach elementary and middle school. Musical Content: The musical content of these blog posts varies from choral warm ups to teaching techniques to advice on how to interact with administrators. Other information: Cadenza One also has a large sheet music service which allows for full score preview, and digital print purchasing.

Brought to you by Teachers Pay Teachers, this resource revolves around music history and middle school students studying composers. At only $5, it provides a 2 week interactive unit on composers and includes project guidelines, composer lists (baroque, classical and romantic composers), rubrics, and more.

Interactive music education games for students to play. Great for centers. Categorized by concept.

Leaffcutter John is a ground breaking artist who experiments with electronics and music. He is in the line between a pop electronic composer and an avant garde electronic composer. Not formally trained in music (he has a degree in arts), he sought the possibilities of computers to produce multimedia art. I copied one of his successful gadgets which has 16 photocells that interact with a music software (Max/Msp).

A great online resource for educators seeking a tool to help students gain fluency at sight reading music. This interactive tool allows for you to schedule assignments at customized levels as well a customized instrumentation.

Great website for puzzles, quizzes, composition activities, instrument families and a great introduction to the NY Philharmonic.  This would be excellent to use before attending a NY Philharmonic concert. 

This is a great website for students to review concepts learned in class. "Instrument Frenzy" is a high speed game that can be used to review instruments and categorize them by family. 

A great website for students to learn about the instruments, and people of the orchestra. They also learn about composers and compositions, and are able to make their own instrument, mingles, and minuets. A great website to use for elementary students who are learning about the orchestra.

This site is a Wiki for websites for music education. There are many links to interesting sites and other music ed resources.

This is a wiki for music education websites. It contains many useful websites for educators including interactive theory sites and lesson ideas. This website would be very useful for educators who are looking to explore different lesson ideas and presentations with their students.

Site offers educational rap music videos that cover a variety of subjects including math, science, history, and current events. Also provides interactive and online lesson plans, quizzes, and activities related to each video. Requires small subscription fee (~$1/month) but well worth it. Great way to use music for cross-curricular teaching.

This British website supports music education and allows the reader to to search articles on British Music Education. The purpose is to give readers access to thousands or articles from around the world, delivering journal content on the internet. This site includes news on music education, articles about young musician scholarships, blogs for different music societies, and interaction among theory and technology for music educators.

This is a list of SmartBoard programs applicable to music, organized by a teacher in Plattsburgh, NY. These activities are mostly aimed at K-5th students, but they are all very good resources. Note that clicking a resource takes you to that resources page, not the schools.

An amazing site for all instrumentalists that includes audio/video demonstrations of most woodwind, brass, string, percussion, and keyboard instruments. Examples of articulation, timbre in different registers, mutes, vibrato, special effects, and more are provided.

A great interactive way for students to learn the instruments of the orchestra, as well as fretted strings, without sitting through a lecture. What fun this would be as a scavenger hunt for the students with QR codes.

This site has amazing videos that demonstrate quality technique or a wide range of instruments.

This interactive TED lesson offers a fun video introduction to learning how to read music along with multiple choice questions, higher level questions, and discussion boards.

Music Delta comes with an ever growing collection of courses. Whether you want to learn about the music of Mozart or the different styles of jazz, there is courses for you. The courses contain articles, interactive applications, music examples and quizzes from the large content that is Music Delta. The students can take the courses the teacher has pinned to the class course list. The teacher can track the student's progress and score.

This is a flash-based musical game site that has several different activities that are appropriate for elementary students. The site is very engaging for that age student and easy to navigate.

This is a cloud-based music education software with lesson plans, project ideas, audio, video, games, and other special activities to assist teaching new content from note values, line and space identification, world music, and other content.

Curriculum for music classes through grade 8.

Musictheory.net is an all encompassing music theory website. It includes lesson plans and on-line, interactive exercises that solidify and enhance those lesson plans. This website also includes great theoretical tools. These tools include interval calculators, analysis, chord and scale calculators and even a 12 tone row matrix. It also has utilities such as an pop-up piano and metronome.

MusicTheory.net is a great website to teach theory to students. It has lessons on a variety of topics, interactive exercises to support the theory topics, and tools that could be used in conjunction with other activities in the classroom. There are also apps available for devices. The best part is that the exercises can be customized (scroll down to the bottom of the exercise or tools pages) with a permanent link so that students can take quizzes or have additional practice for specifics without having to change the settings for themselves. For example, note identification can be customized to the clef and range of a specific instrument and sent to those students for practice or quizzes.

Kahoot.com is a user-friendly free website for all educators to use in the classroom. It is fun way to interact and assess the student knowledge of content. Kahoot quizzes can be created by a user, and quizzes can be shared other users. The quizzes can be formatted differently to keep the game fun and exciting such as, which student gets the most right, or who is the first to answer. The website is free, but with an upgrade and small annual payment, there are a few more benefits to the site.

On this site, students can gain further understanding in a variety of musical topics, some that they may be learning in school. Most of the activities are game-oriented, so this is a fun outlet for kids to explore outside of the music classroom. Students can learn about the instruments of the orchestra, famous musicians and soloists, and popular composers. One thing to note is that the descriptions are rather text-heavy. Therefore, this site would be appropriate for an older elementary student or middle schooler as far as reading readiness is concerned.

This website has fun games to use to enhance music learning. I would use it for complementary only.

This website is a very interactive source for children designed by the New York Philharmonic to educate them and pique their interests about classical music. Features include games, facts about composers/instruments, tests/quizzes, etc. Children visiting this website are also able to watch archived concert performances.

GoNoodle is an interactive website that offers activity songs for different classrooms. The videos can be used as brain breaks, but it also has songs that could be use in cross-curricular settings (English, history, etc).