Music

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(Brian Lopez) Discipline: Music Grade Level: All Ages Web site address: http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml? Description: This site allows for the student to learn while having fun. Kids can access 8 sections: Game Room, Instrument Storage Room, Dressing Rooms, Instrument Lab, Musicians' Lounge, Composition Workshop, Composers' Gallery, and Newsstand. It is really easy for the students to navigate through the website. My favorite section was the "Musician's Lounge." Students are able to interact with musicians of the NY Philharmonic and featured soloists. They can learn about who they are and what they play. (You may need Adobe Flash Player)

(Zeahna Young) Discipline: Music Grade level: All ages Web site address: http://www.creatingmusic.com/ Description: This site is a creative online music site for kids. Kids can compose music, play along to music posted on the site, and play musical games and puzzles. It is a fun way to get students interested in learning music, without being too difficult to the point where the students would want to give up. It also offers ways to create music in schools, ways to teach musicianship and theory, and news from other schools and programs.

(Mia Cortez) 7. http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/readysetlearn/readysetlearn.html Discipline(s) – This weblink has various activities that include videos, music, and puzzles. Grade Level(s)- This website is appropriate for preschool-age children. Description – This weblink is has interactive games and activities, including videos to watch, and a piano-like-keyboard that can be used to “play” music. It is colorful and appropriate for preschool age children. There are also coloring pages that can be printed.

Website: http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm. Discipline: Music. Grade Level: k-12. Description: Student work, pictures and music compositions are on this site. The site is also used to provide music technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction. (Neima Firouzi)

(Tina Song) 3. Discipline Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, Technology Grade LevelK-12th grade Web Site Address http://www.brainpop.com/ DescriptionThis website is phenomenal! This website covers so many different subjects. When you click on the certain subject, there are other components or subtopics that are available. For example, when you click on English, 5 topics come out: Famous Authors & Book, Study & Reading Skills, Free Movies for English, Grammar, and Writing. When you click on one of those topics, more specific subtopics come out, such as adverbs, adjectives, antonyms, capitalization, etc. This website is designed to give definitions and clearer explanations of key term vocabulary used for that certain subject and lesson. This wonderful website also offers videos for students visually see a demonstration that can be shown during classroom instruction time.

(Jessica Schackne) • Enchanted Learning o Disciplines – Everything from holidays to all subjects taught in school (writing, biology, physical science, languages, geography/history, and other topics like art, math, music, etc…) o Grade Levels – Especially useful for grades K-3, however some of the info could apply to other grades o Web Site Address – www.enchantedlearning.com o Description – This website has many useful tools for teaching grades K-3. I think it is primarily used for printing out helpful worksheets for topics that come up, but are not covered in the curriculum well. It does have some games, but it is more set up for teachers to look at and use as a resource for printing worksheets.

• The Kids Know It Network o Disciplines – Spelling, Math, Science (animals, astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, human biology), Social Studies (geography, dinosaurs) o Grade Levels – Grades 2 and above o Web Site Address – www.kidsknowit.com o Description – This website provides information for children looking for information regarding any of the disciplines listed above. It also has games to go along with each topic. As a teacher I found the free educational movies and music especially useful.

• Brain Pop – Animated Educational Site for Kids o Disciplines – Science, Social Studies, Math, English, Art & Music, Health, & Technology o Grade Levels – Grades 3 and up o Web Site Address – www.brainpop.com o Description – This website provides entertaining ways to make learning fun. You can choose different educational subjects and then a category in that subject that may be a game, movie, etc… Resources provided for most lessons include graphic organizers, quizzes (online and printable), and closed captioning for students with disabilities.

• Mastery Challenge o Disciplines – Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Art, Misc – Sports, Music, etc… o Grade Levels – Appropriate for 4th graders and above o Web Site Address – www.masterychallenge.com o Description – Mastery Challenge is a website I use in my classroom. It provides a challenge for the students who want to go above and beyond. It has 90 topics for students to choose from. The students may visit the website then click on the topic link that they like. Then they need to study it until they have the topic memorized. If a student completes 15 mastery challenges, their name will go up on the “Wall of Fame.”

(Pauline Misias) 7) Learn about instruments A. Discipline: Music B. Grade levels: Kindergarten to 6th grade C. Website: http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/ D. Description: A Kindergarten to 6th grade website that can be used to teach students about various musical instruments and which families they belong to (i.e., wind, string, percussion, etc.).

Discipline: Music Grade Level: K-5 Web Site Address: http://pbskids.org/jazz/bandleader.html Description: This is a great supplement to music lessons for though teachers who are not very musically talented. The website uses music and incorporates lesson plans for language arts, social studies, music, and math. This site helps with mixing music into the academic standards. This particular section covers jazz music. It is great for students and provides tons of information. Students can explore the world of music as well as those who create it. It helps to have computers with head phones so they can listen as well. What is great is all the lesson plans already developed. Fun site for rewards. (Nicole Warner)

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Playhouse Disney: Music
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: Pk-3
Web Site Address: http://tv.disney.go.com/playhouse/letsplaymusic/index.html
Description: This is a very innovative website that is designed for both Parents/teachers, and children. It offers parents vast array of information that allows them to understand the importance of music in a child’s life. From a glossary of musical terminology, to activity printouts, to music list and expertise advise, this website has it all for those parents who are interested in making music a part of their child’s life. Kids are also able to listen to music, play music, and create music on this website; all while interacting with their favorite Disney characters (Michelle Estrada)

Songs for Teaching
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: All Grades
Website address: http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Description on Webpage: Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages. We offer thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions. All songs are previewed for use and content before they are made available on the site. (Michael Crawford)
Review: Songs for Teaching uses music to promote learning by providing music with lyrics, downloadable MP3s and lyrics across the curriculum for all ages. Included are educational references and teaching tips, General Education songs, Life Skills songs, and content songs according to grade and subject. This site is an excellent source for teachers who are creative and want to use music as a mode of teaching core and other subjects. For example, I found a 5th grade appropriate song for teaching the Constitution, which my student teaching class is studying. By simply searching, A song excerpt can be heard while viewing the lyrics. Different musical genres include many contemporary forms popular with older grades. (Edward B. Wahl)Music can be implemented within the classroom in so many ways. It helps children with their memory and learning in general. Songs For Teaching offers lyrics to educational songs, cd’s and downloads.

Music Education Madness
Website:http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/contributions.shtml
Discipline: Music
Grade level: K-12
Description: This website is fantastic for would-be music teachers or any teacher who is trying to infuse a tiny bit of music into their classrooms. The site is broken down into two categories: Elementary and Secondary. The best part of the site is that it is put together by teachers, for teachers. All of the information is attributed to different teachers and some even link to their email addresses, if you have further questions. (Heather Feldbaum)


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"Discipline: Music"
"Grade Level: Prek-12th"
"Web Address: http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml"
"Description: This is a great website for music lesson plans. It offers a wide variety right down to Beethoven 9th Symphony. It offers a section where teachers can search previously asked questions and offers a guide for creating your own music lesson plans. If also offers musical lesson plans that tie into all other disciplines." (robin purcell)

Website:http://teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Music Discipline: Music Grade level: PreK-5 Description: This website is a goldmine!! It has 130 great music lessons for teachers to implement in their classrooms. The content of the lessons contain everything from teaching the days of the week, to seasonal or holiday fun. It appears that this website is a compilation of lessons that real teachers use. I can definitely see myself using a great resource like this when I have my own classroom.(Stephanie Perry)

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Website:http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Music.htm Discipline: Music Grade level: PreK-12 Description: This website is extremely organized and easy to use. On the main screen, it has teacher’s select the grade level that they need a lesson for.After doing so, you are taken to a page where the various lessons are all categorized by content areas within music. For example there are lessons on everything ranging from speed and tempo, to rhythm, and even dance and movement. This is truly a great resource for teachers!! (Stephanie Perry)

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Macgamut http://www.macgamut.com/ Students use the program for ear training in music. The program has many different areas that train young musicians on different areas of ear training. It has chord recognizing between major, minor, augmented, and diminished. It also has pitch distance and melodic and rhythmic dictation. Players are played a sound or sounds then are given choices of what it is. Students must answer 8/10 in a row in order to move to the next level. grade level Middle-University

Percussive Arts Society http://pas.org/

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The PAS is an organization that is made up of percussions for the education and advancement of percussion. There website has both free and membership information on percussion.

General Music Resources

Creating Music
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: K-8th grade
Web Address: http://www.creatingmusic.org
Description: This site allows children to explore and learn about music. Students are given the opportunities to learn about the characteristics of music (i.e. pitch, loudness, timing, and tone quality) and create their own music. Students can decide which instrument they want to create their music for and at what pace. This site can instill a motivation in students to try new hobbies that involve playing musical instruments. Users of this site can also access the online music store. This store has music software designed for a variety of different ages. (Dorian Miller)

http://www.brainpop.com/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Discipline: Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art and Music, Health, Technology Grade Level: k-8 Description: This is an interactive website, which offers many activities and games for learning all major subjects. When you click on the subject of your choice,you will have the ability to chose from several subtopics. For example, under the general Science topic, the different subtopics include: genetics, famous scientists, ecology, and so on. You can also become a member to enjoy all the activities and videos offered on this site.

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Address: http://www.dailygames.com/games/Mission-to-Magmamon.html Discipline: Music Grade Levels: 3-12 Description: This game allows music students to quickly identify the notes on the keyboard by matching the notes on the staff with the notes on the keyboard. The goal is to rescue the trapped scientists by shooting the correct notes out of the air.

DSO Kids

Website: http://www.dsokids.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Music

Grade level: 2-6

Description: This website is owned and operated by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. It is an extension of the Dallas Symphony orchestra program, which brings classical music into public schools nationwide. A nice touch to this website is that it is has two lounges-one for ‘kids’ and one for teachers. The site presents fun, accessible and student-friendly resources to musical learning. There are several websites like this that support local symphony arts programs. Most of them like this one implement the same kinds of activities of musical instrument identification through sight and sound, orchestral seating charts, composition, historical facts of composers and music theory. Unlike the other music learning websites however, the kids (student) page adds components of instrument making and fun activities to do at home. The teacher’s lounge also provides a wealth of resources for instruction. Not only does it have music lessons but it also has lessons that relate on a cross-curricular level. Lessons are found in a searchable database in three categories: by youth concert program, by subject and by grade level.

JW Pepper

Website: http://www.jwpepper.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Music

Grade level: K-12

Description: This site is a music resource site used by music educators. JW Pepper provides sheet music, CD accompaniments, and music resource books to educators. Users can browse the online catalogue and order repertoire and resources more conveniently than visiting a regular sheet music supply store. Though the website is the most popular way that educators use JW Pepper’s services, the company has a number of branches around the country that can be used to research repertoire before it is bought.

PBS

Website: http://www.pbs.org (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Music, cross-curricular

Grade level: K-6

Description: This site is a wonderful musical education site that promotes various musical concepts appropriate for grade levels kindergarten to sixth grade. There are two pages to the overall site that are musical (pbs.org/music and pbs.org/jazz). Both pages can serve primary grades and are interactive and very user friendly. The music page seems more tailored for the lower primary level. It has music activities that are cross-curricular as well as activities that engage the student in sing-a-longs, instrument identification and music creation. The jazz page however, is mostly geared toward the upper primary grades. The jazz page has activities and lesson plans been designed for use with the PBS JAZZ video series (JAZZ, a documentary by Ken Burns aired January, 2001). The lesson plans may also be adapted for use as stand alone resources. What’s unique about this site is that the activities have accompanying lesson plans for language arts, social studies, music, and math teachers.

Creating Music

Website: http://www.creatingmusic.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Music

Grade level: K-5

Description: Creatingmusic.com is an online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. On the site there are five pages for students to explore which meet the national curriculum standards for music education. On the site students are introduced to concepts such as pitch differentiation, melodic direction, music notation, pitch duration and basic music theory. The most important element of the site is that students are mostly encouraged to create first then learn from their creation

Music Theory

Website: http://www.musictheory.net (submitted by Rosemary Blankson, edited by K. Anderberg)

Discipline: Music

Grade level: K-12 and beyond

Description: This site is dedicated to the instruction of music theory, from the basics to advanced music theory principles, and the interactive lessons are straight forward and extremely easy to use and navigate. The site is also available in seven languages, including standard American English. The site has 3 parts: Lessons, Trainers, and Utilities. Lessons include elementary lessons appropriate for children K-12, such as definitions of minor and major scales, rests, note measurements, etc. The Training component is interactive, including audio, and is a fabulous learning tool. The training section has exercises where students can listen to two tones and then identify the type of interval, there is a trainer exercise where you plot the fingering of guitar chords on a fret and one like it for piano or brass instruments, as well. There is a trainer for different types of scale recognition, such as dorian, ionian, etc. These training components are invaluable for music students. The final category offered is utilities and there are three: chord calculator, staff paper generator, and matrix generator. The chord generator makes chords of certain intervals in certain keys; the staff paper generator allows students to print their own blank staff paper, and the matrix generator is not anything I could understand so it needs some clarity to it still. Overall, this is an extensive site full of music education tools from the most basic to very complex, and I highly recommend it. My mother was a music teacher, and I was learning notes and staffs, and how to write music at the age of 5, and these tools on this site simulate much of what my mother taught me, thus I recommend them to even young children, to begin laying down the groundwork for the language of music.

Early America

Website: http://www.earlyamerica.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: Social studies, Music

Grade level: 3-12

Description: This site offers a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. From documents such as the Declaration of Independence to copies of original writings and maps, this website offers the primary and secondary educator with a wealth of resources to use during instruction, and they’re available on this one site. Interactive music, movies and printable games serve as extension activities for students and make learning about U.S. history exciting and interesting.

Fun Brain

Website:http://www.funbrain.com/notes/index.html (submitted by Kat Howell)

Discipline: Music

Grade level: 6-12

Description: This site offers 3 basic music games and within that lots of options for other disciplines. You can pick different grade levels and difficulties within the games. Some you would have to have prior knowledge, so they could be used at different levels within the curriculum. The “Stay Afloat” is hangman; “Piano Player” tests knowledge of note reading skills, bass and treble clef; and “Scramblesaurus” is scrambled names that you figure out given clues. Stay Afloat tests their knowledge of different instruments by learning the spelling. Piano Player is a good game for testing themselves on their note reading abilities. They are shown a note on the clef and then have to find it on the piano keyboard so they have to both know the note name, as well as where to find it on the piano. Scramblesaurus is a way to review composer’s names and facts. The more they know about a composer, the quicker they will be able to identify the name within the scrambled letters and meanwhile they will also review facts about the composer’s life and achievements. They can also choose musical instruments or sound recording for word searches.

Discipline: Music Grade Level: K-12 Web Site Address: http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp Description: San Francisco Symphony is interactive website for students, teacher and parents, which divides up the instruments based on the four categories (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion). Once the students pick a category the website provides a brief history of the instruments, and then the students get to hear the music each instrument makes. This is great resources to have the students be familiar with different sounds of the instruments. In addition, at the music lab, students can learn music vocabulary (tempo, rhythm, pitch and so on) and listen to example of each (Navneet Kaur).

San Francisco Symphony Kids
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: K-5th
Web Address: http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
Description: This site is designed for kids to explore music notes, musical instruments, sounds, and the San Francisco symphony. The website does this through games, playing music the children composes and allows children to explore the different types of musical sounds and compositions. (Bethany Adler)

Music Tech Teacher
Website: http://www.musictechteacher.com/musicquizzes.htm
Grade Level: K-12
This website has over 130 games, quizzes and activities that students can play. Some of the games are geared towards very young children who are just starting out in music while others are geared towards more advanced musicians with more complex questions. There is something for students of every level here. It has quizzes where the student matches the rhythm that they hear to the correct rhythm on the page and quizzes where they have to define the interval between different notes. It also helps students learn note names, music history and even musical markings found in mariachi music. It has something for every one and is a great resource for music teachers. The best part is that the entire site is free!
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Songs for Teaching
Discipline: Math, science, language arts, reading, and social studies
Grade Level: K-12
Website: http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Description: Songs for Teaching website promotes using music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages. This website offers thousands of children songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions. There are also articles, teacher resource materials, and a blog for discussing music in the classroom. (Jennie Garsha)

Play Music
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: Ideally for K-3rd grade, but can be for any grade to introduce the orchestra and classical music.
Website: www.playmusic.org
Description: This site introduces students to the world of classical music, the orchestra, instruments, and composers. There is an area to learn about the different instruments that are in an orchestra. You can learn about a composer, concertmaster, or instrument builder. Students can try to learn to write their own music. There are also resources in finding an instrument, orchestra or a teacher. You can even go to Carnegie Hall’s website for a “listening adventure” of what an orchestra actually sounds like. (Crystal Choi)

Discipline: Language Arts; Music; History (Julie Gillichbauer)

Grade: K – 6th

Web Site Address: http://www.dsokids.com/

Description: Dallas Symphony Orchestra This site focuses on some of the most famous composers in history. The children can read and listen to the famous works of composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Hector Berlioz. This site is especially versatile because the games, which are educational, starts with beginner levels and increase to advanced levels to accommodate a wide range of abilities, thus it is suitable for most elementary students. One of the most useful aspects of this site is that it also contains a “Teacher Resource” link. Teachers can access many different lesson plans for all grade levels, music videos, curriculum guides, and well as developmental workshop information. This site is easy to navigate and extremely helpful in introducing music into the classroom and curriculum.

DSO Kids
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: 1st to 8th grade
Web Address: http://www.dsokids.com/
Description: This website was made to teach students about music. One of the games featured on this website teaches students about recognizing different music notes. Another game requires students to recognize different composers and artists. Students can click and listen to varies music by clicking on “listen.” This website also provides activities for students to do at home, such as making an instrument. If the students really enjoy this website or want more information about music, they can join the DSO Kids Club and receive emails and newsletter from the DSO company. (Teewa Saks EED 515)

Songs For Kids Discipline: Music Grade Level: K-6 Website: http://www.songsforteaching.com/freedownloads/freekidsmusicforchildren.php Description: Great sight for teachers that provides educational songs for all subject matter. Printable lyrics with kid-friendly cartoons and goofy songs make learning fun. (Gregg Goldin EED 515 Hybrid)

(Suzie Fulleman) http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1 San Francisco Symphony Kids K-8 This site is a great introduction experience to musical instruments, terms and composers. Students will really like changing various elements of a musical piece and then hearing the immediate response of the band.