This music teacher has great ideas. Her blog is a great choice to add fresh ideas to your classroom.

There are interactive lessons that would be great for centers work or to engage students in learning more about a specific music theory concept. It could be useful if students are working in with a music notation software, for instance, and forget a concept.

This site is stocked full of useful features for students in the form of games, quizzes, and a great flash keyboard with music to match. Using the number keys, students can practice even if they don't have a piano keyboard. There are also lessons and resources for teachers, too.

I've used this site with students playing boomwhackers along with the animation. It's very easy for children to use and provides a great tool for visually representing sound and fractions (both in relation to the tube length and also the beats in the measures).

This webpage provides a great visual and aural example of the harmonic series. Utilizing fractions and sound properties, this is a great tool to connect science, math, and musical concepts. Also on the site are programs that can be used to compose and explore with sound bars, directions for creating homemade instruments, and more.

This site gives students the ability to create satisfying compositions that explore texture using loops that are designed to fit in with each other. Perfectly suited for differentiation, students can create works that are simple or complex.

Noteflight is a free, online software for music composition using standard notation. Teachers can use it to input quick warm-ups or other music for practicing, then they can print it or send a link to their students, all for free!

PBS has great resources, especially their stuff on Jazz musicians. This page is fun, too. Kids can explore sound as it relates to up and down visually.

This site links every computer key to a unique sound and visual effect. It could be used as a lead in for composition, especially relating to digitally created beats.

This is a music teacher's blog. It has links to simple animated games for practicing music skills and knowledge.

This site offers streaming of programs about young musicians and their lives. The focus is on the music and the impact it can have in a young person's life. The pieces themselves are also discussed and lesson plans are available to go with them.

This is a companion website to a series on improvisation for students, ranging from beginner to advanced. Has anyone ever used this series? I'm considering buying it to see what it has to offer.

The graphics on this website are amazing- any child would enjoy browsing through and learning about musical instruments, composition, and composers. Also very neat is the game where you can "play" different musical instruments. The numbers on the computer keypad become notes in a scale!

This is the kids' section of the New York Philharmonic. It has very informative pages about instruments and composers. It also has games for composition, and musical puzzles. You do need to download shockwave to view the content, but it's worth it.

This website is useful to teachers and students. It has podcasts, composer biographies, activity pages, and even lesson plan ideas. Also useful are the games for kids, which cover note names, composers, and also let students compose, too!

This website has resources to accompany their texts, but they are certainly useful even if you don't have their text. K-8 listening maps are great and easy to download. There are also detailed histories of different instruments.