Music Education: Websites

National Association for Music Education (NAfME), among the world’s largest arts education organizations, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education.

The Ohio Music Education Association is the third largest of the 52 federated state affiliates of NAfME, The National Association for Music Education. The Ohio Music Education Association is the only state affiliate of NAfME chartered as a music education association rather than a music educators association. The mission of OMEA is to foster a spirit of collaboration for the mutual benefit of all aspects of music education.

The American Orff-Schulwerk Association is a professional organization of educators dedicated to the creative music and movement approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman.

Inspired by the vision of Zoltán Kodály, the mission of the Organization of American Kodály Educators is to support music education of the highest quality, promote universal music literacy and lifelong music making, and preserve the musical heritage of the people of the United States of America through education, artistic performance, advocacy and research.

Search by artist, song, or even words from the lyrics.

The Idea Bank contains materials which we hope will be useful and valuable to you as a music teacher.

Contains audio and lyrics for many children's songs

Contains midis and lyrics to many children's songs

Music-related activities and online games

Introduction to how sound is generated

Educational materials provided by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Part of the Urban Institute, the Center collects and publishes research.

From the Discovery Channel, resources (including lesson plans) for teaching science, social studies, language arts, and humanities to grades K-12. The programming themes cross curricular subjects and cover literature, sciences, and social studies.

Blog from the Washington Post

A "Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites." Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education and providing powerful search engine.

Annotated collection of links to web sources selected by subject specialists in the UK.

See especially the Resources section, containing many full text reports.

Research, news and other information on the importance of early education.

Curriculum materials for preK through 12th grade tied to PBS programming.

Science Reference Services of the Library of Congress provides research guides that are particularly useful for science fairs, etc.

Search or browse a collection of "high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and students."

Curriculum materials and professional development resources.

Offers a good set of basic reference resources for general, and specifically education, reference needs. For the "Lesson Exchange," go to the homepage of Teachers.net.

Directory of links, lesson plans, and an FAQ archive, maintained by the Information Institute of Syracuse.

Information and links to research on education policy. Consider an RSS feed for new publications.

Brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction.

Resources and links to current research in education. Maintained by Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

From the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lengthy collection of links related to many areas in education.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, designed to help educators identify and make use of effective teaching practices. Based on the Department's What Works Clearinghouse, which evaluates research on practices and interventions.