PBS
Classics for Kids: Games
Compose your own music, match the rhythm, form words with notes, and learn more about music and history in these games to teach students about classical music.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Match the Rhythm
Match the rhythm you hear by hitting a section of the drum set.
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Morton Subotnick's Creating Music
This site is an effective and fun way to help children understand music better. There are several online interactive games to play to better understand rhythm, pitch, scales and much more.
California State University
Csu: Arts Education K 6 Music Lessons
Several wonderful lesson plans for teachers seeking to incorporate music into the curriculum.
Other
Creating Music
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
Quia
Quia: Musical Elements
A great matching game to reinforce music vocabulary and an understanding of the elements of music.
Quia
Quia: 2003 Music Review
Play musical Jeopardy! Test your knowledge of sound, instruments of the orchestra, music elements, music notation, and rhythm. Play this interactive game by yourself, or with a friend!
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Musical Instruments
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Musical Instruments.
PBS
Classics for Kids: This Week
This website is sponsored by a classical radio station in the Midwest. The site contains audio files and text files of past shows, games, a handful of lesson plans, and lots of energy. You can find information on many composers by...
Other
Powertyping: Alphabetic Rain
Learn to type with this online free typing tutor game which focuses on learning typing with the rhythm of music. There are five levels of play; post your score to see if you're in the top.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Ritmos (Medio) [In Spanish]
In this activity you must identify the rhythm you hear and relate it to their representation in musical notation. This is a intermediate level.