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This website deals with World Music for children. There are projects, audio links, sheet music for purchase, and coloring/information sheets.

This website introduces students to musical cultures around the world.

This website has opportunities for students to experience World Music. There is a subscription if you want to use the website for more opportunities.

World Music Composer provides listening samples of instruments from around the world. With those sounds, students can create a personal music composition. Works well when introducing instruments of the world & music from other cultures.

Amazing music listening resource for music teachers. The cool thing about this website is that it shows how music can unify and connect people all over the world. It contains videos of a common song being recorded by musicians all over the world on a variety of different world instruments. Great resource for world music drumming. Many videos are free, but some require a subscription now.

Children all around the world engage in musical play. This website contains authentic video performances of singing games from around the world. Jules Oosterwegel was inspired to capture and gather these musical performances during his travels, believing in the importance of sharing these songs and games with others.

This website is a compilation of world music that is appropriate for children to learn about and perform. The library is vast, and is easily searchable by continent, country, and language. There are audio clips and linked videos, as well as several English translations. It's a great resource to explore world music and culture.

All schools need to embrace world music as a means of stopping racism and prejudice!  Also, world music is super fun to teach!

Daria World Music for Children is a colorful and vibrant website that teaches students about all aspects of world music. It has many multimedia resources from listening to the sound of an instrument to actually learning how to make one. Definitely a great resource!

This is a youtube video made for 3rd graders about music from around the world. I think it would be really easy to have kids make videos like this themselves, so I'm posting it more as an idea to be replicated than to actually use. I think some of the information is slightly inaccurate, but the idea is fantastic

World music resources including forums, FAQ's resources, new customs. It is set up for any teacher. It specifically says the teacher does not have to read music. The best thing about it is the forum. A teacher can learn from the forum buy reading other's ideas. The worst thing about this is they are trying to sell their books. However, they do have other resources linked to their website.

10 question quiz about music from around the world (intermediate to advanced)

Mix magazine is a great resource for all of the latest news related to the audio technology world. There are articles discussing the latest technologies being released, as well deep dives into the recording studios of industry professionals who have worked on world renown albums.

This is a discussion by New York Times columnist, David Brooks, and Kathy Fletcher, and the director of Turnaround Arts Initiative about the important work that Turnaround Arts does through the strategic use of the arts. The discussion talks about how music facilitates brain development, why certain things in music leave people fascinated, and what magic music brings to emotion. The discussion also unfolds how the arts, and music education in particular opens the student's mind to memorisation. David Brooks says "Students understand better when topics are introduced through music". I agree with that because most students become more alert when a topic is introduced through song and it fosters the interest of students. Therefore we need arts to succeed in education. A lot of artists came from struggling backgrounds so when they talk to children that would like to succeed in the music world but are frightened that they'll never make it, they tell them "I know what you are going through but you can make it". This encourages those children to push on and excel in the arts. Kathy Fletcher says music boosts critical thinking and confidence which is ideal for students and they end up excelling in all other fields. The arts connect us all through music in a way that music created is shared all around the world. Partnerships are created to perform music and people come together to listen to music. This makes us one.

This website is lesson plans relating to music from the Smithsonian Folkways program. There is music from all over the world located here and lesson plans for various ages and grade levels. They are organized by continent.

I love the resources on this website. I use them in a variety of different ways to teach world music!

This website can be used for jazz education. It contains a wide array of resources for students and adults. The sole purpose of this website is to advance jazz education.

A great site that provides jazz education resources, tips, lessons, and various opportunities to get further involved into the jazz education world.

A great site that provides jazz education resources, tips, lessons, and various opportunities to get further involved into the jazz education world.

Major music listening resource for world music. Contains songs from all over the world. Requires a subscription for broader access to more content.

The Army Band Program's website offers free recordings of traditional music that is performed by the many army bands throughout the world. This can be utilized for listening exercises in music classrooms.

The Army Band Program's website offers free recordings of traditional music that is performed by the many army bands throughout the world. This can be utilized for listening exercises in music classrooms.

Great article about what music apps have new releases and what is coming out in the future. This teacher knows what is going on in the world of music education apps. A good resource to follow.

Great article about what music apps have new releases and what is coming out in the future. This teacher knows what is going on in the world of music education apps. A good resource to follow.

An extremely useful site to peruse free music for download in various categories like orchestral and chamber music parts. I have frequently used this for myself and students when faced with auditions that I/they need an "original" part to.

This is a great resource for all band directors. It contains articles, background, and lesson strategies for many compositions in the wind band repertoire. It also contains articles relevant to other ensembles, such as chamber groups. This site helps band directors plan ahead for their selection of reputable works in the band world.

This is a great resource for all band directors. It contains articles, background, and lesson strategies for many compositions in the wind band repertoire. It also contains articles relevant to other ensembles, such as chamber groups. This site helps band directors plan ahead for their selection of reputable works in the band world.

8notes.com provides an incredible variety of free and subscription based printable music for instrumentalists and vocalists. The site categorizes the music by instrument, composer, level of difficulty, etc. This is a great resource to share with students who are looking for solo or ensemble repertoire ideas, in addition to rock/pop, jazz, and world music selections for personal enrichment and entertainment purposes.