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MakingMusicFun.net provides worksheets, lesson plans, and other resources for elementary music teachers. Premium users have access to more resources.

Making Music Fun is a great website for resources for music educators. There are tons of theory worksheets (some more appropriate for elementary school students), lessons, composer biographies and worksheets, and activities for the music classroom. There is also a library of piano music that is well-written for beginners and available in a variety of levels. Some features over the years now require purchase, but there are still tons of resources available for free.

This website is one of my favorites for finding elementary sub plans, fun note-naming worksheets, and other fun worksheets for kids.

A collection of fun musical games for young students. Players can try games such as "MusicQuest" or "Percussion Showdown", and take music knowledge quizzes. Games are flash-based and would work well on Chromebooks or in a computer lab.

The New York Philharmonic has a web page dedicated to activities for children. This website includes not only games, but links to watch a concert.

This is an interactive website sponsored by the New York Philharmonic specifically designed for children to explore musical instruments, composers and some famous conductors. Musical games are available to play. Instruments are identified by sight and sound in the instrument storage room and is an excellent resource for learning about timbre and tone color.

This website has many fun games for students. They are introductory level. Students can be introduced to instrument families.

Incredibox is a simple but fantastic music making application. An app is also available to download on smartphones, allowing on-the-go music making. This can be a great resource for introducing students to music making and composition. It can also help them learn rhythm and melody, and to explore their own creativity.

Love this website for my first time DJs. Website is easy to navigate for my middle school students and super engaging.

Program that allows one to create and record their own composition. Program has pre-recorded loops.

This website provides articles with creative ideas about how to teach band better. Its purpose is for band directors to share ideas that work for them with other band directors.

A wonderful resource for band directors to share experiences and resources!

Band Directors Talk Shop is an excellent resource for new and experienced band directors and music educators. This website contains many articles on various topics within instrumental music. Excellent posts include topics such as teaching improvisation as well as facilitating leadership within your band program.

A blog and resources for teaching band instruments. Contains ideas for improving specific technique, rehearsal strategies, and exercises.

The purpose of this resource is to help students with ear training for interval recognition using familiar tunes. The musical content is in the form of links to YouTube clips that demonstrate different intervals. This source is valuable for teachers because it builds on what students know (the familiar tunes) and provides immediate links for patterns of intervals both ascending and descending. It also allows you to select only the examples you want to use and print them out on their own chart. It also provides tutorials and music facts about theory and technology. Like many other software programs, it offers a free trial, making it more marketable and appealing to teachers and students alike.

This website will generate a list of intervals with related songs to learn the intervals. By picking the song of your choice, you can build a custom list to meet your students' interests. The list is printable and can be distributed to your students.

A helpful site for students who are working on learning and mastering their intervals. Provides a great list of songs that you can associate the intervals with to help remember them.

This website features free access to musical excerpts of famous songs and melodies to illustrate examples of musical intervals. Each excerpt is a link to a video on YouTube. You can create your own song chart of favorite pieces to use as an example of each interval in ascending or descending patterns. Music educators would find these examples very useful for classroom instruction. The Earmaster company also offers ear training materials for purchase including over 2000 exercises for musicians of all ability levels. Free trials are available and it is advertised that music schools and universities use these products.

Great resource for music teachers to teach intervals. It is a list of popular songs and pieces that utilize specific intervals, and includes links to the audio or youtube examples.

EarMaster organizes an ample amount of repertoire for learning specific intervals. The music examples are categorized by ascending and descending intervals of minor/major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, perfect 4th, 5th, octaves, and tritones. The youtube examples will start immediately where the specified interval can be heard. Students can choose to memorize any examples listed to help them remember the sound of specific intervals.

This site offers a service that one wishes they had until they realize it exists. Essentially, if offers lists of songs that can be used to teach intervals. For many choirs - both middle and high school - the majority of students have not had proper ear training. A fun and effective way to do this remedially is to use familiar or easy to sing songs that students can reference to develop their ears. This site puts many song titles in one place to help facilitate that.

This website allows teachers to find songs that are associated with particular intervals. There is a free version but the paid (2.99/month) has more features. This software basically generates a chart with a list of songs for each interval and can be used as an excellent ear training activity!

This website provides browsers with a repertoire of songs that feature particular melodic intervals. Several of these songs are accompanied with links directing browsers to a YouTube recording of the corresponding song.

This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.

Banddirector.com is a website that offers several resources for band directors. It includes links to several instrument manufacturers, uniform companies, camp locations, videos and articles. This is a great site to use in order to obtain new ideas for your own program.

This website offers a free template for printing staff paper. Several customizable options including staff size, clef, indentation, and guitar tab are also included.

This resource provides users with access to free customizable music staff paper.  Users can select different clefs, change orientation, add measures, and manage bar lines.  Students can utilize this resource for music theory, personal composition, and jazz transcribing while teachers can use this website to print sheet music to construct exercises, arrange/transpose parts, assign music theory problems, and for other uses.

This is a great tool to get manuscript paper. Easy to use and customizable.

This may seem like a small thing, but the ability to print sheet music on demand is vital to music educators and students alike. This is an invaluable resource for your students!

Print blank sheet music for free, supports guitar and bass tabs too, ready-to-print sheets in a few seconds, no software to download and install, no watermarks on prints, requires Flash plugin

IMSLP is on online library of music that is now held in the public domain. It is a resource that can be freely used to print copies of music for use in your classroom for free! This resource is especially useful for string orchestras, as entire catalogs of music from such great composers as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven can be found in the archive.

Public domain music is free for downloading here. For many compositions, there are several editions from which you can choose. An essential for every musician.

This is a wonderful site for free music and recordings of all kinds.

IMSLP is a valuable resource for classical sheet music. It allows teachers and conductors to download scores and parts for free.

Sharing the world's public domain music.

The International Music Score Library Project (or IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library, offers a wealth of free music scores for download. The site allows listeners to listen to many of the compositions (via midi or recording) and the public domain scores can be downloaded as PDF and printed for professional or personal use simply by accepting a disclaimer.

This is my favorite go to wiki site for public domain sheet music. There thousands of works from thousands of composers. You can find almost anything that is in the public domain. This is great for personal use, or to direct students looking for music. Another great use for this sight is for score study.

A "must have" resource for any music educator. This is a free-access extensive music library with hundred of thousand scores published in 26 different languages. Musicians can browse scores by composers, nationality, time-periods, instrumentation/genres, by melody, etc.

This is the go-to place for public domain music. "Happy Birthday" is here, but I am sure many more arrangements to come soon. 

IMSLP is a great resource for finding music to study, or doing research about composers, orchestras, compositions, etc. My students have to do a research paper each semester, and this is their primary reference for the assignment. A great, educational tool.

This website is a tool I often use when I need to find a specific part I am missing from a score set. It has thousands of composers and pieces that are used by music teachers and available in free domain. In addition, this website also offers a score breakdown by composer, nationality, instrumentation, time period, as well as recordings by well known musicians or performing groups from all over the world. Not only are you able to have access to music, but you can access the Naxos Music Library if you have a subscription. You are able to share your thoughts and our questions by the use of the forums and discussions. This website has various ways you can participate whether it is in a forum, contribution to submitting a score or recording, or a community project

One can find public domain music on this site, available for download. The library is constantly being updated with new pieces and recordings available for free. Some popular pieces even have copies of original manuscripts and updated versions.

This website has a large collection of public domain sheet music. Students can access this site and find a private study piece or something to work on for class.

This website is a hub for public domain sheet music including full scores, parts, and even recordings of pieces. It's free to use and incredible if you're on a budget for ensembles. quartets and solo work.

This is a database for scores and parts that are public domain and new compositions from unknown composers. This would be a good place to look for repertoire for performing ensembles. Students could also be directed here to look for music to work on their own for solos and chamber groups. This database also includes method books for individual instruments. All downloads are free. 

Where you can share the world's public domain music.

International Music Score Library Project hosts scores and parts to public domain compositions. Scores can be found to many greats throughout history, and this would make a good resource for a music history course.