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This website list resources available to music instruction. Educators can find providers of music lessons, lesson planing pages, blank sheet music.

Beth's Music Notes is another great blog to follow that includes tons of songs and most free if you join. I like to follow her blog to find new songs to bring to the classroom.

This blog incorporates a multitude of songs and lessons to go with different every day musical concepts. There are lessons and posts regarding rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, Orff arrangements, and recorder songs. Songs on the website are organized into different categories so they are easy to look through and extra resources are linked to help with sub plans, lesson plans, assessments, and even behavior.

A blog, shop, and resource for music teaching. Primarily offers songs, resources, and games in the Kodaly methodology. Posts and songs are searchable by date, grade, and other criteria. Songs and resources are available for purchase.

This website was created by Jon F. Mueller, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at North Central College in Illinois. Mueller discusses the differences between traditional assessment and authentic assessment - two different concepts that have different long-term goals and outcomes for students. Mueller, a strong advocate for authentic assessment, provides various examples to illustrate the pros and cons of both methods of assessment at different levels and fields of education, while providing data and research to support his stance. Mueller also provides information and structured examples on how educators can incorporate authentic assessment (in many forms) in their classrooms.

A website to help create and utilize musical assessments. A teacher can learn about new assessments, compare state and national music standards, and learn about the most up-to-date musical research.

This site provides several useful resources for educators. It is an authentic assessment toolbox filled with tips to help teachers create rubrics, include standards in their assignments, and examples of assessments to use.

This website has many piano/keyboard resources that can be printed. It has great, colorful visuals for students to use that are decently explanatory on their own.

This website provides many resources pertaining to teaching piano. There are games, worksheets, improv help, and ear training resources to help teachers and students.

Carnegie Hall provides music educators with resources to use with students in K-5. There are various activities, exercises, class games, and assessments that incorporate songs, instruments, and various styles of music. Some concepts taught include rhythm, meter, form, pitch, expressive qualities, and overall performance. Activities and resources are categorized by appropriate grade levels. This website also links to other educational resources, programs, and opportunities that music educators can utilize to benefit themselves and their music students.

Music Teacher Tools & Resources is a resource for teachers in grades K-5 and includes lesson plans, assessments, listening examples, activities, and videos. The resources also integrate the elements of music with engaging activities. A wonderful resource to use and/or complement any lesson.

The purpose of this website is to provide music educators with tools that address music fundamentals. The site also had digital music learning options that provide professional development for educators as well as connect students to diverse musical communities. The resource provides unique learning opportunities for elementary students.

DonorsChoose is a great place to start looking for additional aid for your classroom. You can pose a project that you need funding for, if its more instruments, books, materials, and/or other resources that you may need, but can't get your district to obtain. It is very easy to use and you create a project where people can find or search and donate their own money to fund. You can have several people donate and you can share your proposal on various forms of social media to help spread the word. The choral teacher and I did a few projects and we were able to get Orff Instruments, Drums, and even Ipods for the kids. You have to follow up with DonorsChoose and send photos and thank you letters from the students to show how you are using the materials in the classroom. It is a perfect way to receive that additional funding for your program.

DonorsChoose is a miracle for programs with little to no budget. You can create an account as an educator and create projects that go towards your classroom. You can ask for anything from Chromebooks to instruments and sheet music. Donors from all over the world can donate and support your classroom. This is the resource that helped me build my band program.

Best Practices for Children's Choir is a podcast with Matthew Parker discussing his best practices when working with a children's choir. The discussion content ranges from choosing music to engaging in warm-ups. Matthew also shares his favorite octavos, composers/arrangers, warm-ups, and tips when choosing music. This is very useful information and a great resource to use when working with your elementary and/or middle school choir.

Podcast and synopsis of best practices for children's choir. I want to reference this if the world works my way and places me in an elementary school next year.

Tips and tricks for utilizing movies for content reinforcement or introduction.

An excellent set of first day of music activities to help teachers learn names and establish classroom routine.

Music teacher job search advice from the hiring table.

Great questions to ask in an interview for a music teacher position.

Establishing rules for a general music class in an elementary setting.

Kahoot! is an online/cloud-based program that allows users to create multiple-choice quizzes that are played on electronic devices (cell phones, iPads, etc.).

Kahoot is an awesome website where you can create quizzes for your students. You can also access kahoot quizzes made by others. Students can login from their device and play the game/quiz in your classroom. They can also login at home for practice/homework.

This is a great site for making games for students. The games can be of anything you want. I have used it to reinforce rhythms, theory, and notation. It can be used for so much more.

Easily create your own rubrics. Complete rubrics on iPads, tablets or phones. Collect data offline with no internet access. Compute scores automatically. Print rubrics or save as PDF or spreadsheet.

Mr. Dickson's website has great resources for band warm-ups and fundamentals, as well as "fun songs" for band. Each resources is divided by instrument for ease and convenience. Mr. Dickson also has a tuning app advertised on the site available for download.

This website has great warmups to do with your Elementary and 6th grade bands. I use these daily with my group and it gets them focused very easily!

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 website offers resources for band directors. This includes concert band, marching band, travel and festival tips, articles and videos, and the website has a discussion board for band directors to ask questions. This is a great resource for all band directors to improve their ability as a music educator.

BandDirector.com is an exhaustive site of information for band directors. The site includes information on concert, marching, and jazz bands, along with individual band instruments. The site also features videos and a webcast.

This website includes an incredible amount of information for music educators. There are interviews with top educators and conductors, live concert webcasts, and many videos and articles about the various instruments.

a short description of Komitas the song collector that inspired Johnnie Vinson's Armenian Rhapsody