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West Rowan High School has proved scale sheets for each instrument at different levels of ability. This source provides easy to read full range scale sheets for students practice their scales with. For younger students, one octave scale sheets are available to begin practicing their scales without the extra notes they do not know how to play yet.

This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.

This website helps students build their music theory skills. It offers tutorials, articles, and exercises for both ear training and written theory

This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.

A fun and interactive source or beat mixing and music making. No account needed. Free options. Allows students to create, record, and download their compositions.

Incredibox is an online and free music technology resource that has the user drag and drop icons to create different arrangements using various loops. The website also creates a game where the user must find the right combination of loops to make creative decisions that the program has pre-determined. This resource is a great tool to introduce students to the world of music technology while also teaching about form, the recording process, sharing of music, and how/why musicians makes creative decisions.

This composition website allows the composer to experiment with form, texture, harmony, and other elements of music without having to read standard notation. Instead of music notes, the music is represented by a cartoon boy in different outfits.

This website is useful for middle and high school students. Students can take tutorials on music theory fundamentals and can work on ear training such as intervals, chords, notes, scales, and rhythmic dictation with drilled exercises.

A great resource for your last minute lesson plan needs!  There are plans, activities, and quizzes!

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. I love this resource primarily for the fun and interactive nature that the games provide to my classroom. There are plenty of resources such as lessons, pre-made assessment, and videos. However, the games allow students to enjoy learning through assessment and interactive scenarios.

This website is a great resource for beginning to integrate technology into your classroom. There are ready-made lesson plans, as well as fun activities to do with your students. There are worksheets on theory, lessons on piano, and so much more.

SmartMusic has interactive, web-based editions of many popular instrumental, band, chorus, and orchestra method books, as well as a massive collection of sheet music. Students can listen, loop, record and submit pieces they are working on. A neat feature of SmartMusic is that students can click on a single note and hear how it is supposed to sound, and how to finger that note on their instrument. Students can adjust tempo, play with a metronome, use a tuner to check pitch, and more. A paid subscription allows teachers to create online classrooms for assigning and assessing work, and have access to the entire SmartMusic catalog.

SmartMusic is music learning software for music teachers and students. It makes music learning easy and fun. Students can continue their learning outside school. Teachers can also assess students outside the school wall. Smart music is good for rehearsals because a student can rehearse at home when the teacher is listening in and correcting him/her from anywhere else. It is easy to access and a good resource for music classes.

The purpose of the resource is for student and teacher practice/classroom tools. The content included in this source is a subscription to a web-based service that allows students and educators access to sight-reading material, repertoire accompaniments, and method books. Could be useful for encouraging student practice

Quia has over 200 music games and activities to help students review a variety of topics, including musical instruments, instrument families, note naming, and popular music trivia.

Apronus Piano is an online piano that works on both touchscreens and with piano keyboards. As opposed to some online keyboard that play C when you press the letter C, D when you press the letter D, it uses the keyboard as close to a piano as possible. The second row of keys corresponds to the white keys on the piano and the number row corresponds to the black keys as they occur (with one or two exceptions). The bottom two rows can be used to play chords. The range of the keyboard can be adjusted to hear different notes. This online piano can be used as extra practice for general music or piano students or as a substitution for a real piano if keyboards are not available but computers are available. It could also be used in conjunction with composition assignments or for choral students to practice vocal lines.

These TED Talks focused on Education are an excellent resource for any educator, including Music Educators. These podcasts are an efficient way to learn new information while commuting, doing chores around the house, and even dutifully listening while taking notes. These podcasts range in topics, and cover anything from specific concepts to worldwide educational trends.

This resource provides free online music flashcards to use with students. They help to teach note reading, key signatures, triads, and more.

This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies

Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!

Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.

Welcome to Opus Music Worksheets, a database of high quality, free printable music education resources for download, including free sheet music, music theory worksheets, music flashcards, music business forms, and many other free music learning resources for music teachers, music students, and parents.

Opus Music has a great series of music worksheets suitable for general music and ensemble classes. The lessons are sequential and logical and provide clear descriptions of each topic in the lesson material before providing exercises for completion. The worksheets are available in downloadable PDF formats. These worksheets would also work well as substitute assignments if needed as a non-music teacher could figure out the directions.

The Opus Music website is a great resource for teachers looking for free printables. It is not a in-depth site, but instead offers a series of music theory worksheets, speed note name tests as well as flashcards and teacher printables for: business cards, lesson registration, lesson assignment and lesson billing. This site is geared towards a private studio teacher, but I have found the theory worksheets useful for beginning music students as well. All the material is free. There are also links to music teaching resources.

This site has a real nifty guide/chart of Disney songs and a breakdown of the tempo(speed), range, meter and brief notes about the song. The videos are a little dry but if you don't want to go through a book/music library to find a particular song, this would be a great reference if you want to study Disney songs either through the lense of theory or performance accuracy,

This site has many lessons and exercises that can help young musicians learn the basic notes as well as help experienced musicians develop their listening and theory skills further.

Provides worksheets and activities for multiple grade levels and abilities. Activities include: sheet music, music theory, composers, naming notes, and much more. Activities are very accessible for elementary students.

This is a regular podcast that is a great resource for staying up to date with music pedagogy and instrument specific concerns. The podcasts address topics such as rehearsing beginning bands, choosing literature, classroom management and marching band.

The All-Star Orchestra, which is made up of "All-Stars" from various orchestras, produced content for Khan Academy. There is a wide-range of videos to watch from notes and rhythms, music history, conducting lessons, instrument demonstrations. This is a fantastic series with top musicians.

This website is a music game for note names, fingerings, and music theory terms. Students are timed on how long it takes them to complete the game and they can try to be the top score. You can't limit the pitches, so this works for students who have been playing for more than a year.

Through this site, students can engage in a variety of music theory or aural skills activities. Using the program's interface, one can engage with activities such as melodic, harmonic, two-part, and rhythmic dictation as well as chord analysis. It uses a click-drag method to assign notes and/or pitches to an exercise.