Online Music Education Communities

Music Kids' Korner
This online music community contains two concentration games. One is about music symbols and one is about composers. The most useful tool on this webpage is the interactive recorder fingering chart. Here you can see the fingering for any note on the recorder just by putting your mouse over the note on the piano. There is also the scale cruncher which is also interactive. You select a note and it will give you the notes to several different kinds of scales beginning with that note.

Free Kids Music
This website contains a variety on free kids' music that you are able to download. There are folk songs, music for movement, and other kinds of music for kids available on this site.

Free Guitar Videos
This website offers videos of free guitar lessons. On this website there is a collection of over 150 online free guitar lesson videos in a variety of difficulty levels and genres.

Blank Sheet Music
This website provides a template for printable staff paper. You are able to edit the template by changing the size, adding a clef, key signature, time signature, ect. in order to meet your own staff paper needs.

New York Philharmonic Kids
This is a website for kids made by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. It is an interactive website that has many games and activities for kids that teach them about music.

San Francisco Symphony Kids
This is a music website made for kids by the San Francisco Symphony. It is an interactive website with many games and activities that help to teach kids about music.

Smart Board Lessons
This website was created by teachers. It is an online list of shared resources for teachers. It contains Smart Board files that teachers have created to use with their classes.

Homemade Instruments
This website contains a list of homemade instruments that kids are able to make. The list of homemade instruments includes, plastic egg shakers, paper mache fruit shakers, jingle sticks, African tambourine, sand blocks, juice can shakers, jingle bracelets, and the quilting hoop drum.