NAFME addresses the topic of music education in the United States on local, state, and national terms. This association also acts as a resource for music advocacy. NAFME offers professional development for music educators as well.

The American Orff-Schulwerk Association provides a variety of resources for teachers and students to enhance their musical education. Here, students work together to create musical experiences through dance, movement, playing instruments, singing, and acting. Workshops and clinics can be attended to enhance knowledge and understanding in this area of music education.

This is a fun resource for elementary music teachers to introduce instruments of the orchestra in an interactive way. Students are exposed to the four families of the orchestra and their instruments with a fun adventure-themed story to guide the way.

Chuck Vanderchuck is a fantastic resource for teaching students about different genres found in music (not just classical!). Kids love the different sounds that genre-based instruments make, fun catch phrases that Chuck repeats throughout the site, and different historical facts about how each genre originated. Students are invited to move to music, arrange their own combos with different instruments, and engage in memory games to help them learn the content provided.

On this site, one can explore all knowledge needed to learn correct playing practices on the recorder. Along with fingering charts and sample music, one can find articles on overall playing technique, mechanics and instrument choice.

On this site, students can gain further understanding in a variety of musical topics, some that they may be learning in school. Most of the activities are game-oriented, so this is a fun outlet for kids to explore outside of the music classroom. Students can learn about the instruments of the orchestra, famous musicians and soloists, and popular composers. One thing to note is that the descriptions are rather text-heavy. Therefore, this site would be appropriate for an older elementary student or middle schooler as far as reading readiness is concerned.

This site can be handy for high school or college students in a music theory or aural skills course. Students can practice identifying intervals, chords, scales, cadences, and more both visually and aurally. These skills likely reinforce ones they learn in class.

Through this site, students can engage in a variety of music theory or aural skills activities. Using the program's interface, one can engage with activities such as melodic, harmonic, two-part, and rhythmic dictation as well as chord analysis. It uses a click-drag method to assign notes and/or pitches to an exercise.

One can use this site when in need of a metronome. The one provided has tempo markings that increase by 4 BPM for each level. Along with the numerical designations, Italian tempo markings as well as their spectrum are provided.

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.