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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: 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)
Songs for Teaching
Discipline: Music
Grade Level: Music
Website address: http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Description: 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 exerpt can be heard while viewing the lyrics. Different musical genres include many contemporary forms popular with older grades. (Edward B. Wahl)
“Songs For Teaching”
Discipline: Songs For Teaching is very useful when using music in the classroom. It covers many subjects such as math, science, seasons and holidays, and languages.
Grade Level: Pre-K-12
Website Address: http://www.songsforteaching.com/
Description: 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.
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. In each of those categoriesProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0
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Teachers.net
"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)
LessonPlansPage
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/
k-professional
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 site makes learning all of the subjects interactive. It offers activities and games. Click on the subject of your choice. This will lead you to several subtopics. For example, under Science, learn about genetics, or famous scientists, or ecology, and so on. Once you select the general topic, you can choose from more specific topics. Become a member to enjoy all the activities and videos offered on this site.
General Music Education
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)
Discipline: Music
Grade level: 4-12 and beyond
Description: This site is dedicated to the instruction of music theory and is available in seven languages including standard American English. The presentation of the website and concepts are very straight forward yet seem intended to be used as an extension to students that are more advanced. For this reason I recommend that it be used from grade four through the secondary school level and even onward. For example an elementary teacher may use this site as extra credit for a gifted student or a student who has a history playing a musical instrument. Musictheory.net is very simple in its definition of musical vocabulary even to the adult novice. It incorporates listening and visual examples in its step by step lessons which facilitate differentiated instruction.
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)
