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This page lends itself as yet another valuable resource, especially for those whose weakness is teaching students to play by ear. In it, you will find six games that not only seek to refine our students' aural abilities but also serve to make a seemingly tedious task both motivating and fun; among this list are activities like rhythm chain, scale stops, and interval recognition--all of which can and should be implemented in K-12 music classrooms.

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.

Informative page for Band Directors.

Wakelet is a great resource to use when creating a very basic website. Each collection serves as a page and follows the format of a newsfeed. Students are able to access the material at home and can practice what was done in class. This source can deal with whatever musical content you choose to post.

This page offers different curriculum maps for elementary school. Katie's curriculum can help a teacher plan their year out better of give ideas on how to format their year. The curriculum maps can also serve as models when creating your own curriculum map. The website also offers grant writing tips, PD opportunities, classroom design, and music center/game resources.

This page lends itself as a particularly valuable resource, especially for those whose weakness is intonation. In it, you will find philosophies, phrases, analogies, activities, and what the author terms "common threads" for approaching the aforementioned topic with your students. Among the most popular suggestions are singing, practicing characteristic tone quality, and listening down, or back, to the tuba section--all of which can and should be practiced in the early stages of a student's musical development.

K-12 Resources for Music Education website is a valuable and resourceful page filled with endless opportunities for all types of music educators in grades K-12. There are specific tabs for band, choir, orchestra, classroom, and all music. Once you click on these you are taken to a variety of sites with a variety of topics/activities. This is definitely a resource to have at the top of your list for K-12 reference material.

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. Smartmusic is an incredible resource that can be used in the classroom to aid in individual assessment. It allows for a student to be accompanied and even record assignments to be turned into the teacher. This program greatly reduces class time spent on assessment!

SmartMusic is a great program on it's own for teaching music. But they also offer advice on other great resources, such as those on this page.

The American String Teachers Association is filled with helpful resources for string teachers specifically. The "teaching resources" page includes tips for working on string specific content such as bowing technique and left and right hand position.

This website has profiles for several baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century composers. Each page seems easy to ready, and has video links as well as links to sources.

This website works as a database for many famous composers. Students can use this website to complete music history projects as well as composer projects. Composers are organized by country or by period.

The purpose of this website is to portray the artwork of the creator. With the posted artwork are description of the composers available the site. This website would be a useful resource for history facts about composers form multiple musical periods. The website also offers information about prominent and lesser known composers from several countries. YouTube inks are often provided for a listening example of each composer's work.

The 4-Beat Rhythm Cards found on this site has been an excellent tool for me over the past three years. I have used the full-page sized flash cards as rhythm exercises for both bands and choirs, and they are really effective for immediate use in the classroom. Not only are rhythm charts found on this website, but a host of music theory resources are also available.

Especially for private instructors like myself, access to core music standards is not always readily available, or exactly the same as state standards. For fellow WI instructors, it is important to stay abreast of changes made to the Standards for Music. This site directly links to the government page on the topic.

This wiki page categorizes sacred music into holidays and holy days. It not only shows the piano and choral sheet music in a pdf format but also gives a description to each piece and why it is appropriate for a specific holy day.

Musical Online has a pedagogy page dedicated to resources and support for learning a new instrument, particularly as an adult. There are links to external sites for guitar, piano, voice, and drum lessons include Flowkey, Musical U, Free Drum Lessons, and Justin's Website (guitar resource).

Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website devoted to the cello. It includes information about cello basics, such as how to set up the cello and start playing the cello, cello fingering charts, cello care, cello practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the cello and exercises specifically for the cello. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Viola Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument. There is also a link to a store for all these websites for purchases for the instruments.

This page provides a list of repertoire that is suitable for young bands. Along with the titles, arrangers and publisher, it provides a brief description as well as length of piece. This is a great resource with young bands wanting to play higher level repertoire. 

This PDF list of standard repertoire for intermediate bands includes composer, title, difficulty level, and description about the primary thematic and musical concepts of each piece.

It is a good resource when choosing your middle school concert repertoire.

This site includes several music lessons followed by games and quizzes for practice. There are other resources available on the site for teachers, parents, and students. The site includes a blog and a contact page.

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

Resources for grades K-5, involving age-appropriate lessons and ideas. Ideas center around pitch, form, dynamics, rhythms, meter, performing, singing, tempo, meter, etc.

Carnegie Hall has a great resource for music educators who teach K-5th grade general music. They list the activities by grade, and even tell you what you can use each resource for (i.e. teaching rhythm, meter, singing, etc.).

The Carnegie Hall Education page for Educators provides teaching resources to teachers. They provide lesson plans, meeting certain standards, for grades K-5. These lesson plans cover everything from the basics to composition to improvisation with Brazilian Sama

Musication is a YouTube channel that offers boomwhacker, body percussion and handbell play-longs for students. The site is intended for elementary music, but can be used with any age. There is a wide variety of songs on the site and he has a facebook page as well. The site is based out of the Netherlands