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Auralia5 and Musition5 are very good soft wares for a music classroom. Auralia is for ear training, while Musition is for music theory. These softwares enhance a student's musicianship through very interesting activities of listening, composing, notating music, and sight reading/playing. A school has to purchase the software, though it is cloud based. The teacher adds students to different classes in the groups so that when assignments are set, they are easily submitted to the class where they belong. Teachers can create and assign worksheets, tests, and courses, and grade his/her students online as well. Tracking allows the teachers to run exams with high quality content that students love. Reports are also created in the software and parents can access their children's performance. Auralia and Musition are perfect for students of all ages and abilities. Auralia has a clean, easy to use interface designed to keep students focused on their essential ear training task.

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

I love this page!  Any time I need a last minute plan or have a friend who needs a class activity, I come here!  It is nice to help other teachers out too!

One of the original titles of music notation software. Finale was first available in the late 1980's and has been in constant development ever since. The software is available in 3 service levels: Finale, Printmusic, and Notepad. Notepad is a free version and only offers limited features. The full version of Finale has full capability to produce professional-looking scores and is also capable of exporting audio and MIDI files. Finale also comes bundled with Garritan Aria player VST and a decent-sounding instrument pack. Finale also features educational worksheets and templates which are very useful for teachers.

I found this great site while looking for composer biographies for my second graders. This site has a wide range of free printable such as listening maps, word searches, games, and biographies. The information is appropriate for elementary school students.

Music Graphics Galore contains a plethora of free musical visuals, in various formats. Some icons also have animations in GIF format. These resources allow, especially for elementary, music teachers to add exciting musical visuals (borders, notes, instruments etc.) to anything they need. Icons which accompany musical content are useful in performance and responding music activities.

Database of music graphics for use in posters, worksheets, and non commercial websites. Searchable by instrument and musical element.

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.

I use this game with my students to help with note names.  This makes naming notes a game and competitive.  It also includes the alto clef and while many worksheets leave out the alto clef.

This website is an excellent tool for reinforcing note reading and fluency. Students can progress through three levels of identifying notes on a staff specific to their instrument. They can work to get faster times and eventually reach the top 50 list.

This site has 3 reinforcement games in it for band students. In order to start the games students select their instrument, it then takes them to the appropriate exercise for the students. The reinforcement games are note identification, fingering reinforcement and music terms.

The Carnegie Hall Corporation provides free resources to music educators. This website has lesson plans, student guides and worksheets, assessments, teaching videos and audio recordings, games and sheet music for the general music classroom. This website is a great resource for music teachers and provides various ways to search and find specific resources to various concepts.

A comprehensive list of Peter and the Wolf resources for teaching about all aspects of this work. This list includes videos, worksheets, teacher lesson plans, and interactive whiteboard resources to keep students engaged and interested while learning about Peter and the Wolf.

This website provides educator resources for the movie Score. Resources include worksheets for the movie. Great for studying movie music in the classroom.

Great resource for music history. With a new audio show being posted every week and past shows being available, there is a lot available and will continue to be available. Has short audio to keep children's attention and has an accompanying worksheet to help facilitate optimal listening and understanding.

This website is a great resource for K-5 music.  There are jokes, games, and information regarding famous composers, including recordings of famous pieces of music.  This can be used by a classroom of kids in a computer lab, or by a teacher for lesson planning.

Classics for Kids is a resources for teachers, parents, and children. It provides lesson plans, music games and interactive links, a podcast, tips for parents, and information about composers, instruments, and music history. The lesson plans (written by my former music education professor, Dr. Kay Edwards) are standards-based and incorporate elements of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze.

This website is for elementary/general music education. It is a resources for lesson plans on composers, music theory, and music listening.

This page is the entrance to the repository of resources connected with Band Directors Facebook group. It includes worksheets, flashcards, recruiting information and many other downloadable information.

This website offers Bullentin Boards for download at a small cost. There are also free to use powerpoint files and classroom resources.

This site will cure all boredom in bulletin boards.  There is a board for every occasion.  There are other resources as well.  I need it for the board ideas.

Stuff to download and display in the classroom

This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

This website provides many flash card music theory quizzes that can be projected on a white board. It has topics ranging all the way from note identification to inverted chords with roman numerals.

This is a website that has a store, blog, and information for both students and teachers. On this website there is information about helping students compose, rhythm, teaching, music games, theory, and so much more. This is an excellent resource that will help teachers teach their students to compose and expand their own knowledge of teaching. 

Great for ages K-5. Equipped with worksheets, lesson plans, assessments. etc. The website is easily navigated and up-to-date.

This website provides free resources for music teachers including lesson plans, activities, assessments, and video examples designed to be effective and adaptable in a wide variety of music classrooms. The resources include fundamentals of rhythm and meter, form and design, expressive qualities, pitch, and performing.

This set of free online resources for music teachers includes lesson plans and activities, summative and formative assessments, video examples, and documented best practices.

This site contains a collection of lesson plans for theory and history that could be utilized or referenced for the classroom.