Resources for Educators
Use a new tool, Pathways to Integration, to identify ways to integrate music into all content areas. With this tool, lessons can be measured for depth of integration and depth of music use. No one style of integration is “right” – however Pathways can guide teachers on their journey to full integration of music.
Ask a Mentor articles explore specific content and methodology questions from real classroom teachers.
Recommended Links
- SFSkids.org — SFS site with information and activities about music
- Internet Public Library— includes an annotated music history timeline
- Smithsonian Global Sound — Great resource for world music
- ThinkQuest|Library|Music — Annotated catalogue of internet musical resources
- Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures — Carnegie Hall’s interactive site
- Instrument Encyclopedia (UMich) — Online musical instrument encyclopedia
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia — includes descriptions of special collections, searchable index of nearly 700 names associated with those collections, connections to on-line collections and presentations, and pointers to over 100,000 digitized items on line. Teaching resources are included with many subjects and entries.
- Classics for Kids — Information, games, and lesson plans Specialized musical topics
- Art of the States — new American music, with audio samples
- Voices Across Time — resources for using American music as a primary source in the classroom
- Artsedge from the Kennedy Center — arts integrated lesson plans catalogued by subject and grade level, tailored to national standards
- California State Content Standards
- Arizona State Arts Standards
- Primary source digital archives — great resource for lesson materials
