Poetry4kids
How to Write an Acrostic Poem
Acrostic poems are perfect for any topic! A quick tutorial guides learners into writing acrostic poems with the basics and key examples.
American Museum of Natural History
They Glow!
Would you believe marine animals can make their own light? An online resource describes the process of bioluminescence and how animals in the ocean use it to survive. The lesson features a catchy tune that describes the behavior of ocean...
ProCon
Video Games and Violence
Is screen time dangerous time? Scholars take a close look at the facts surrounding video games and violence. Pros give evidence connecting violence to video games while cons suggest there is no relationship.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching With Tunes
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around...
Other
Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
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Forefront Publishers: Esl Through Music
A wonderful resource for second language and ESL teachers interested in developing their students' language skills through song. It offers many ready-made ESL musical lesson plans, an annotated bibliography of songbooks and audio...
Other
Musical English Lessons
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Be the Beat!
The American Heart Association wants to help create a new generation of life savers - teens who know how to perform CPR and use AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) to save lives. Be The Beat! teaches teens about heart health and...
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Children's Music Web
Although you'll have to hunt around a little, you'll find some great resources to integrate music into your classroom. Click on "Resources for teachers," to find some fun classroom management ideas. Or find sound effect ideas in...
Phil Tulga
Phil Tulga: Music and Math Teacher Resources
This personal site is great for the music/math teacher looking for a new and fun way to teach math shapes with music and musical instrunments.
Other
Ti:me the Technology Institute for Music Educators
This site is dedicated to TI:ME, an organization whose mission is to assist music educators in using technology in their classrooms. Features include resources for music education for voice and instrument.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Learning Musical Elements Through Listening
This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Teachers Lounge
Although this is considered a teachers lounge, it has many activities for students too. Teachers will love this because there are many lesson plans as well as other activities to do with their students.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog
Highly interactive site all about Clifford! Activities available include games, stories, coloring pages, crafts, letter writing, painting, and music. There's even a special section for parents and teachers with teaching and learning ideas.
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The Royal Conservatory: Learning Through the Arts (Ltta)
The LTTA methodology captivates and motivates students to learn through a unique blending of the sequential approach embodied in the core curriculum with the insight, physicality, and expressive power of the arts to work on real concepts...
Other
The Joy of Cello Playing
A great site with teaching examples, excerpts from his book and cartoons. Site promotes and endorses book, "The Joy of Cello Playing".
Other
Alexander Technique International
The international website of the Alexander Technique, an alternative method of coping with the physical stresses that many performers encounter. Lots of resources, including a list of those who teach the method.
Other
Chile Para Ninos: Arturo Prat
A look at the life of Chilean leader and hero Arturo Prat, with sections for photographs, music, literature, and games that teach about Prat's life and his contributions to Chilean society. A great site for elementary and middle school...