Norris School District

MusicK8.com  Check out the interactive Recorder fingering chart!

The Internet 4 Classrooms maintains a great set of music and arts links.

Playmusic.org  has an awesome section where you can learn about each instrument.

Classics for Kids is simply a 4 Star website for Music!  It's amazing!

San Francisco Symphony Kids Site
    http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp
    Music, Instruments and more.  Great for elementary.

Classical Music Archives
    http://www.classicalarchives.com/

http://www.musicbulletinboards.net/downloadspage.htm Ready made music instructional ppts (Beautiful Nebraska was from this site) Song Lyrics, instructional, games, concert shorts all in ppts)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/46?gclid=COSMlLv_zYwCFRAvhgodHkxYqA  Jennifer Lin: Magical Piano Improv from a 14 year old

http://www.mso.com.au/cpa/htm/edu/front.html Encounter; From Silence to Symphony Interactive site with interviews, music examples from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

http://www.funbrain.com/notes/  The Piano Player interactive game

http://www.libraryspot.com/biographies/musicians.htm  Music Biographies – including women

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/ BBC Audio Interviews with various musicians

http://library.thinkquest.org/10400/html/index.html Online Music Encyclopedia

http://www.naxos.com/education/glossary.asp?char=A-C  Music Terms Glossary

I do a unit on Broadway musicals with my 5^th graders and there is a fun game on this website that asks random questions about broadway.  Good game for those students who are done with their work during this unit and need something extra to do.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/

I do a unit on broadway musicals with my 5^th graders and there is a fun game on this website that asks random questions about broadway.  Good game for those students who are done with their work during this unit and need something extra to do.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/

There aren’t very many music games on this website but the few they have would work well with 1^st or 2^nd graders as a review game when studying instruments and families of instruments. http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/arts-music/index.html

Piano 300 Exhibition:  Celebrating 3 Centuries of People and the Piano  http://piano300.si.edu/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Music and Musical Instruments http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/Music_History.htm

Thinkfinity is awesome!  I spent some time searching different music subjects and came up with several fun games, etc.  This one is my favorite “Beethoven’s Baseball” is an interactive game on the Dallas Symphony Orchestra website that I got to through thinkfinity. http://www.dsokids.com/games/baseball/index.html

Incredibox is a music-creation web app where you can create your own a capella grove. Hard to explain, but check it out.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ Changes the way to look at music. Great demo of what HTML 5 can do in a web browser. (Use Chrome to view this site.)

A cool way to look and learn more about the Periodic Elements in a science classroom: http://periodictable.com/

A nice web site for Music teachers