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.
Recommended Links
- SFSkids.org — an interactive site with information and activities about music
- PBS: Keeping Scores - links to SFS Keeping Score Episodes from Seasons One, Two and Three, including Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland, Shostakovich, Ives, Berlioz, Mahler: Origins, and Mahler: Legacy.
- Geography of Music - maps illuminating the relationships among the various composers as well as connections between music and its broader historical and cultural context
- 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.
- American Memory Collection - collection from Library of Congress chronicling historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America
- Song of America Project - collaborative work of Thomas Hampson and Library of Congress
- Artsedge from the Kennedy Center — arts integrated lesson plans catalogued by subject and grade level, tailored to national standards
- Smithsonian Folkways - grest resource of world music
- National Archives - thousands of primary sources from the National Archives
- Walden School - summer music school, festival, and Teacher Training Institute offering programs that emphasize creative application, specifically through music improvisation and composition
- Arts Alive - National Arts Centre of Canada (NAC) is a great site to discover the excitement of the performing arts, learn about orchestral music, great composers, conductors and much more
- Music History - a guide to Western Composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present
- ThinkQuest|Library|Music — Annotated catalogue of internet musical resources
- Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures — Carnegie Hall’s interactive site
- Instrument Encyclopedia — Online musical instrument encyclopedia and glossary from University of Michigan
- Classics for Kids — Information, games, and lesson plans, as well as 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
- Chronology of Modern Music - a time line of music, art and world events, beginning in the early 1800's
- International Music Score Library Project - a music score library, including sheet music in the public domain available for free download
- Fraction Pies - an interactive site which links musical rhythmic notation to fractions
- National Music Standards
- California State Content Standards
