Learn about the different groups of musical instruments. Book includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.

Website with information on four woodwind instruments: clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and flute. Students learn about the history and qualities of the instruments and can listen to audio excerpts of the instruments being played.

This challenge is to build a four-stringed musical instrument that can play a tune on different pitches.

A great site with teaching examples, excerpts from his book and cartoons. Site promotes and endorses book, "The Joy of Cello Playing".

Access the world musical instrument collection of the Music Department of Wesleyan University through this virtual museum interface. Search for and learn about instruments by type, geographic location, instrument material, and genre....

An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Ruby Jane Smith, a 12-year-old who plays 11 different instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.

This resource is for beginning violinists to learn how to take care of their new instrument. Includes a labeled diagram of a violin and advice on maintenance.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a young lady named Ruby Jane Smith who can play eleven different musical instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

During this interactive game based on the PBS Kids series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Daniel Tiger and his friends practice playing instruments in a music shop. [Requires Flash Player].

Read about the woodwind family and how it is divided. Learn about the piccolo and how it is played. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the piccolo on its own and with the orchestra.

A resource for children who want to play a musical instrument, and their parents, this website includes answers to such questions as "Where do you get lessons?" and "How much will a new instrument cost?" Also included are informational...

Use this resource to learn about the harp, find out how it is played and see pictures. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to the harp play with the rest of the orchestra.

Learn general information about various string instruments, including the viola and cello, and hear audio clips to hear what these instruments sound like when played.

Visit this resource to find out how the French horn is played. Read more about the brass family. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to hear the French horn on its own, or with the orchestra.

Besides providing general information on various brass instruments, such as the French Horn and trombone, one can listen to sound clips of these instruments being played.

This tutorial teaches students about the flute, piccolo, and saxophone. It features sound clips so that you can hear examples of each instrument being played.

If you would like to learn to play the guitar, you will want to visit this website. These online lessons guide you through the basics of learning to play the guitar. This site is also available in Hebrew.

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson lands students as investigators who must explore the usefullness of iris scan (security) algorithms. In the first part of a lesson, a given probability is used to determine how...

Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the notion of Brownian motion and has students graph a sample Brownian particle. In Brownian motion, each "step" depends on the "steps" taken previously,...

Students use the calculator to play a game that requires them to convert numbers to fractions, decimals, or percent quickly and accurately.

This App helps students develop mental math skills through structured play activities. Students progress from simply filling in missing values to actually finding both a number and an operation to make a true sentence.

In this activity, students can use the calculator to simulate the dice rolls to play two different games. They will decide if the games give each player an equally likely chance of winning. They also compute the probability of an event...