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FutureLearn for Schools - FutureLearn
Grades
7 to 12
tag(s): advertising (23), business (50), computers (101), creative writing (115), cultures (100), dental health (15), environment (218), financial literacy (94), gifted (63), literature (220), photography (128), politics (101), professional development (286), psychology (65)
In the Classroom
Allow gifted students to enroll in courses that interest them or that provide enrichment beyond classroom content. Share with others in your building as a resource for professional development. Explore the topics yourself for some new, engaging material to round out your own expertise. Allow students to enroll in a course that would fit into their career goals as an exploratory opportunity in that field. With older students you may want to consider requiring them to take a course with the idea that it is a model. Challenge students to develop a course using a tool like Lore, reviewed here, about something in which they feel they are an expert.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Musanim - Music Animation Machine YouTube Channel - Stephen Malinowski
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (42), musical notation (35)
In the Classroom
Use this YouTube Channel as an excellent addition to any music class to help students "see" music in a new way. Play videos on your interactive whiteboard (or projector) during quiet times in your classroom. Stop videos during play to analyze and understand the representations created and view specific instrument families used at each moment.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Learn to Play the Piano - Hoffman Academy
Grades
2 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (42), musical notation (35)
In the Classroom
If you don't have access to a piano, don't worry, you can still learn how to play! Take advantage of the online virtual piano, reviewed here, to practice just like you would on a real piano. Share with your school's music teacher as an excellent resource for teaching students notes and piano keys. The self-paced videos offer a great opportunity to differentiate for different ability levels while achieving success for all. Share a link to this site on your class website for parents to use at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Flat - Flat
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (42), musical notation (35)
In the Classroom
Flat is a must for all music classes! Share students' musical creations online! Demonstrate the art of composition while using Flat on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Let students download the file to their own devices. Explore the different musical instruments and how they affect the tone and mood of the piece. During a multimedia presentation, have students create their own music. In Destination Imagination or Odyssey of the Mind, use your scores to showcase talent. In honoring multiple intelligences, highlight the students' with musical talent. While reading historical fiction novels, have students compose a song typical of that period with the commonly used instruments and style. Offer in your after school clubs for music, guitar, or band.Edge Features:
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Drumeo - Musora Media, Inc.
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): multiple intelligences (8), music theory (45), musical instruments (42), musical notation (35)
In the Classroom
Capture students' interest using Drumeo. Pull in your reluctant learners while emphasizing concentration, math concepts in sheet music, and building confidence. Offer as an after school option that will grab your students' interest. Highlight multiple intelligences and make all of your students shine. When your students create a multimedia project and need to add sound without violating copyrights, create your own! Use this site as an example of real world math in practice!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Violin Online - RK Deverich
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): gifted (63), music theory (45), musical instruments (42), musical notation (35)
In the Classroom
Try something new and learn to play the violin. Offer as a way to challenge gifted students and highlight the multiple intelligence of music. Need to have sound for screencasts, digital storytelling, or videos without copyright problems? Have students learn to play the violin. After-school ensembles have a great variety of lessons and free music. Offer to parents as a way to enrich their student's learning. Investigate before you take a field trip to the orchestra, and help student's gain a better understanding and appreciation. Music class comes alive with violins and music theory! Use as a way to add to Odyssey of the Mind or Destination Imagination tournaments.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wimp - wimp.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animals (266), musical instruments (42), video (241)
In the Classroom
Bookmark Wimp as a resource for finding videos for lessons and activities. Share the direct link to individual videos on your class website or blog. To remove the distracting advertisements on video sharing sites and more, use a tool such as Clipchamp, reviewed here, or Watchkin, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Planet Nutshell - Planet Nutshell (Kentucky Educational Television)
Grades
K to 1tag(s): drawing (58), geometric shapes (132), numbers (119), patterns (61), preK (238), rhythm (18), video (241)
In the Classroom
Use social networking links to share videos with parents and guardians. Introduce new topics using these short videos or as enrichment between other lessons. Include a link on your class website or newsletter for parents to share at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ABC Splash - ABC TV and Radio Australia
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K to 10tag(s): addition (125), animals (266), antarctica (27), atmosphere (21), australia (27), cells (82), climate change (77), continents (29), counting (57), decimals (88), division (98), earth (173), earthquakes (43), ecosystems (66), egypt (42), energy (126), environment (218), food chains (17), forces (35), forensics (15), fossil fuels (9), game based learning (159), gold rush (15), human body (92), immigration (58), insects (58), light (47), maps (212), molecules (38), money (121), multiplication (119), nuclear energy (19), nutrition (132), oceans (130), parts of speech (40), percent (57), perimeter (18), place value (36), plants (138), probability (94), rhymes (20), rocks (36), songs (45), sound (69), subtraction (108), time (89), vietnam (31), volcanoes (51), weather (156), whole numbers (10), world war 1 (62), world war 2 (136)
In the Classroom
This site is excellent for enrichment. Include it on your class web page for students to access both in and out of class. Share this link on your class web page and/or in a parent newsletter for help with homework and school projects. These high-quality media resources will engage your students and enhance their learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Pan Flute
Grades
1 to 8tag(s): music theory (45), musical instruments (42)
In the Classroom
Let your composers go on the pan flute. Teach (and practice) rhythm using this tool. Create a melody for your story and create a mood. Use the pan flute to improve your students' short-term memory. Combine with vocabulary or spelling words to create rhythms to aid memorization. Use the pipe to make a melody for each character in a story. Add a melody to a text to create excitement and suspense. Have your students create different melodies to represent themselves and write to explain.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Virtual Musical Instruments - Virtual Musical Instruments
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): makerspace (41), music theory (45), musical instruments (42)
In the Classroom
Virtual Musical Instruments opens up the world of music into many other subjects. In music class, discover the different instruments, sounds, and rhythms the virtual instruments can produce. Allow your students to make their own compositions. Challenge them to determine a way to give the directions for their composition to another person so that they can repeat the original piece. In language arts class, discuss mood in literature. Determine the instruments used, the rhythms, and sounds needed to make that effect. During Readers' Theater, add a musical score for more excitement and engagement with further analysis of the text. Have students create a musical composition that tells a story. Now, play that musical story for the class, and turn it into a writing prompt. Use musical sounds and beats to illustrate the concepts of literature and the use of plot. Determine a melody for each character. Write to explain why each character has that musical composition. Math class brings the study of fractions with types of notes: whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth notes. Let students create a musical sentence that represents them and write to explain why. Use whatever recording option is most practical in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ASAP Science YouTube Channel - Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): periodic table (41), video (241)
In the Classroom
Mark this one in your teacher favorites to find videos to use at the start of a science or health unit. Make science more appealing as a way to answer the questions we ponder every day. Do NOT turn students loose on this channel. Because of the popular "adult" videos on this channel -- not appropriate for the classroom, but perfectly appropriate for adults -- we recommend locating the specific video you want to share and placing the url or embed code for that one video on your class web page or wiki. You can also share on a projector or interactive whiteboard. To avoid any possibility of showing titles that may cause distraction, use a tool such as ViewPure, reviewed here to clear away all the YouTube clutter. Use an ASAP Science video as inspiration for students to create their own videos explaining a science concept or debunking a science myth. Make this an option for research projects to appeal to your musically talented or "poetic" science students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Springboard - Parul Gupta and Gautam Tambay
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): professional development (286), search engines (50)
In the Classroom
Share Springboard with your gifted students as a resource for finding enrichment resources or content not taught by your school. Search for and share free courses for all students to use for review of any topic. Use the Springboard search engine to find professional development courses for your own personal use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Penguins: Everything You Need - Scholastic Inc
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): adaptations (10), animals (266), antarctica (27), arctic (40), OER (35), preK (238)
In the Classroom
Use these literary resources to meet your Common Core standards for narrative and informational text. Integrate your language arts into your science curriculum while studying animals, adaptation, or habitats. Participate in reading and writing penguin fun. Share text on your interactive whiteboard and focus on main idea, details, inferences, sentence types, note taking, or characteristics of great writing. Start with informational pieces and then lead into narrative books for a deeper comprehension. After reading informational articles, have students write a narrative integrating details for the setting and penguin information into their stories. Post the stories on your blog or class website. Use digital storytelling to make it come alive.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Granite School District Curriculum Maps - Granite School District, Salt Lake City, Utah
Grades
K to 12tag(s): professional development (286)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site for use throughout the year. Download and use curriculum maps, assessment schedules, and parent guides. Be sure to check the math section for several support documents such as lesson plan templates and guides for teaching basic facts. Share with other staff for use as models for lesson planning and curriculum mapping.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Incredibox - So Far So Good
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): musical instruments (42), rhythm (18)
In the Classroom
Use Incredibox as a great warm-up activity for a choir, band, or any sort of music appreciation class. As part of music class lessons, discuss the different elements in compositions. Use in any class as background music for podcasts, movies, PowerPoints, or blogs. Highlight and honor the musical geniuses in your classroom with this easy tool. Allow your learning support students instant success while challenging gifted students to create the perfect piece. Use in writing class to create mood. Play a composition as background while reading poetry or doing artwork. Help students memorize mnemonics by accompanying them with an audio track a la rap. Use music tracks as a writing prompt and enjoy the fun.Edge Features:
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Annenberg Learner - The Annenberg Foundation
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
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In the Classroom
In your classroom, explore the interactives available to enhance your lessons. Use the lesson plan library to add a new twist to your subject matter. Organize a professional study of your area of concentration for your department or grade level.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Classic Cat - Classic Cat
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): composers (16), musical instruments (42)
In the Classroom
Incorporate this resource into your classroom music program. Use this site to introduce music eras (baroque, classical, romantic), lives of composers, or families of musical instruments. The comprehensive content can be used to supplement a music appreciation class, to augment a social studies or world language lesson on a particular historical/cultural era, or to serve as a guide for building a CD library.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - Toby Rush
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): music theory (45), musical notation (35), rhythm (18)
In the Classroom
Print individual PDF files to use in the classroom as student handouts or enlarge to use as posters. Create a link to files on your class website or blog for student use at home. Share different files with groups of students to use to become experts and then teach the class that component. Use these PDFs for students learning to play an instrument.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CurriConnects Book List - Music and Musicians - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): composers (16), music theory (45)
In the Classroom
Share this list with students (and parents) during Music in Your Schools Month (March) or even during a unit on sound in your science classes. Bring the Arts into STEM to make STEAM!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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