Misc Resources

Music Technology Resources

www.dsokids.com

Many applications! Games include: Time machine, Beethoven’s Baseball, Music Match, Composer’s Keyboard, Conductor Jump, Hangman, Word Match, and Letter Scramble.

Hear instruments, education about the orchestra, make your own instruments.

http://www.classicsforkids.com/

Tons of useful stuff!!! Instruments of the orchestra, musical dictionary, hear the music, this week’s show (highlights a composer and his/her music and gives a quiz, past shows, games (composer time machine, note name game, composer your own music, rhythm game). Extensive music education links.

http://www.sphinxkids.org/

Matching game with instruments or composers, an activity to simulate orchestration, composer info, instrument info.

http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

A step by step tutorial on all the symbols of notating music and what they mean. Information on musical genres. This day in music history.

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/activitiesgames/

Tons of stuff here as well. Instrument lab, composer info, games, etc…

http://www.teoria.com/

Music theory tutorials

http://www.musictheory.net/

WOW---interactive theory tutorial. Lesson broken into specific categories. Theory teachers—check it out.

https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/subjects/music

Lesson plan and activity ideas

http://www.thenationalanthemproject.org/

Lesson plans to teach students about the National Anthem

http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/index.html

Music education advocacy articles

http://www.allmusic.com/

Offers many types of music as well as historical music facts.

http://www.creatingmusic.com/

Offers music sketch pad, cartoon conductor, rhythm band, games & puzzles, playing with music, melodic contours.

http://www.kidtastic.com/city/musiccenter/musiccenter.html

Interactive ways for students to hear how instruments sound.

Compiled by Rebecca Rasmussen, Fall 2005. Used and edited by permission from Rebecca Rasmussen.