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Hello everyone! My Padlet curates a collection of resources designed to support both music students and music educators. My goal is to bring together tools, lesson materials, and professional development opportunities that can enhance learning, creativity, and teaching practice in music education. Through this collection, I hope to show how digital tools can make music education more interactive, accessible, and engaging. This Padlet will strengthen theory knowledge, explore world music, and support professional growth.

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Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.

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Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software

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Noteflight is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear professional quality music notation right in your web browser.

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MakeMusic’s Practice tool allows performers to play along with their part and receive real-time feedback on note pitch, rhythm, and duration

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Videos in the Music Arts Toolkit collection explore the history and elements of music. Through live performances and interviews, the collection represents a wide variety of cultures, periods, and styles of music.

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GarageBand for iOS makes it incredibly simple to play, record, and share your music, no matter where you are. Tap into a wide range of instruments from around the world. And now with the Sound Library, you can choose and download more free instrument and loop packs when new sounds are released, to help you easily craft songs in your favorite styles - all right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

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GarageBand for iOS makes it incredibly simple to play, record, and share your music, no matter where you are. Tap into a wide range of instruments from around the world.

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Free resources for the classroom Please browse the following map to find world music curricular experiences from Smithsonian Folkways’ Network of Music Educators. All lessons can be downloaded in PDF format.

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National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

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NAfME is an association where all people are heard, seen, and feel they belong throughout their lifelong experiences in music.

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How were these built?

All our experiments are all built with freely accessible web technology such as Web Audio API, WebMIDI, Tone.js, and more. These tools make it easier for coders to build new interactive music experiences. You can get the open-source code to lots of these experiments here on Github.

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Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.

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MusicplayOnline is a versatile teaching tool that encourages active music making in and out of the classroom. Whether you are at school or at home, our resources are designed to fit your teaching needs!

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Welcome Back! Classics for Kids has returned with our new Fun Facts videos, worksheets and lesson plans!https://youtu.be/7BjOMa7NvzIFun Facts: Marian Andersen https://youtu.be/OBnHXKNDqXUFun Facts: Yo-Yo Ma Explore More Composers Learn More Worksheets [...]

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Terry Treble will guide your students through a comprehensive music curriculum that trains the eye, the ear and the fingers, and develops higher order thought processes. When combined with your guidance and enthusiasm, your students will learn to read, write, think, and create in the universal language of music, and continue learning new music on their own for a lifetime of musical enjoyment.

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Wide Open School: Music Around the World

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Wide Open School: Music Around the World

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Wide Open School's mission lives on at Common Sense

With schools back in person, we have closed this dedicated distance-learning site designed to guide families and educators through the sudden shift to remote learning.
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So you're looking for ARTSEDGE...

Well good news. Its been a long time in the making, so were thrilled to announce that weve moved our collection of media-rich arts learning resources to a new, mobile-optimized platform. In other words, Digital Learning has a new home as part of Kennedy Center Education.

Were doing the painstaking work of strategically updating our resources to align with todays classrooms, technologies, and learning standardsto make them visually engaging, easy to use and relevant for educatorsand of course, adding NEW resources to our collections.

Looking for one of our interactives? Use these direct links (please be aware that parts of these resources use Adobe Flash, which may not be supported by your system):

Though ARTSEDGE as a destination has been around since 1996, fully integrating with Kennedy Center Education now allows us to leverage even more resources for you and your students. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask via digitallearning@kennedy-center.org.

The Kennedy Center Digital Learning Team

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So you're looking for ARTSEDGE... Well good news. Its been a long time in the making, so were thrilled to announce that weve moved our collection of media-rich arts learning resources to a new, mobile-optimized platform. In other words, Digital Learning has a new home as part of Kennedy Center Education.

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Music & Culture: Smithsonian Learning Lab

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Music & Culture: Smithsonian Learning Lab

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Smithsonian

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Discover the digital education platform that connects people to Smithsonian objects, resources, and stories.

Collections by Grade

Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site.

Talk with Me!
Learn about your community and neighborhood. In this Toolkit, leaners explore different homes, shops, and people in your neighborhood and have fun with related activities.

Talk with Me Toolkits provide you with chances to talk with your children to improve thinking, vocabulary, and language development. Talking with your child is great-and research shows that the quality of words children hear matters more than how much you talk.

Talk with Me Toolkits give you ideas to begin conversations that are organized around a theme. The Toolkits feature videos, photographs, paintings, and artworks along with questions to talk about with your child. At the end of each toolkit there are more activities to do and books to read together. Go through this toolkit with your child and see how many topics there are to talk about!
This toolkit was adapted with a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Links to third-party websites and videos are included in this Toolkit for informational purposes only. They do not indicate the Smithsonian's endorsement, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the third party or content of the linked site, including any advertisements that might be posted.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

What inspires you? Get to know Alma Thomas, (b. Columbus, Georgia; lived and worked in Washington, DC, 1891-1978), an American artist and educator known for her signature painting style using bright colors and patterns inspired by nature. She became a full-time artist late in her life. Born in a time of horses and buggies, she lived through big advancements in technology, such as the space race and moon landing. Her art was inspired by the nature she saw outside her home studio, and awe for the exploration of our vast universe.
Get To Know Alma Thomas Use it in the classroom to teach:
is part of the Hirshhorn KIDS About the Artist series. About the Artist biographies are designed for kids under age 12. Modern and contemporary artists' lives reflect recent human history and events. Sharing these life stories and artworks can help kids see their own potential and better understand the world and their place in it. It is our goal to inspire future generations of artists, makers, and creative problem solvers-sharing artists stories is one way Hirshhorn KIDS realize this goal.
Art classroom: Color Theory, Pattern

Language Arts classroom: Biography

Social Studies classroom: 20th century

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National Museum of American History

In this playlist you will learn about how three of the first presidents shaped the executive branch of the United States government.

Start by clicking on the first tile in the upper left hand corner. Then move through the playlist by clicking on the ">" symbol at the bottom of the page. Look for the information and paperclip icons to provide more information about selected resources. There are 34 tiles in this collection.

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Educator Programs

Cultivating Learning is a professional development series where Smithsonian educators model teaching techniques for using digital museum resources to support student learning. This year's series celebrates America at 250. Programs are free and accessible to anyone.

Wednesday, April 15, 4:00 PM EST

Join Phoebe Sherman of the National Postal Museum to explore how postage stamps can be used in the classroom to encourage civic awareness and engagement. We'll examine how stamps can spark curiosity and deepen understanding of civics, American history, national identity, and commemoration by using thinking routines that focus on both subject matter and artistic design. You'll see how these approaches come to life with students and leave with classroom-ready resources and fresh ideas for incorporating postage stamps into your teaching practice.

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Wednesday, May 20, 4:00 PM EST

Join Nyssa Buning of the National Museum of American History's Spark!Lab and Carol O'Donnell of the Smithsonian Science Education Center to explore strategies for cultivating an inventive mindset in your students. We'll discuss the history of STEAM innovation in America and try an open-ended invention challenge that uses object-based learning techniques to encourage creative problem solving and support curiosity and perseverance, skills essential to inventors throughout history. You'll leave with a set of facilitation tools to support students as they develop their own inventive identity and become future problem-solvers. You'll also receive access to a newly released e-book from the Smithsonian Science Education Center, STEAM Innovation: Celebrating Our Nation's 250 Years.

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Wednesday, June 17, 4:00 PM EST

As America turns 250 in 2026, young people are writing its next chapter. Join a group of educators who apply interdisciplinary approaches to learning to engage young people in civic dialogue tied to their communities.

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Smithsonian Learning Lab: Discover, Create, Share

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Smithsonian Learning Lab Discover the digital education platform that connects people to Smithsonian objects, resources, and stories. Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site. Talk with Me! Learn about your community and neighborhood.

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Be Inspired and Inspire Others From current members to proud alumni, everyone has a Tri-M tale to tell. Share Your Story

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MusiQuest is a creative new way to learn music

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MusiQuest turns music education into an adventure through a vibrant world of songs. Make songs, take lessons, and learn to love and understand how music works! MusiQuest’s curriculum is completely interactive, empowering students to apply musical concepts through creation. When kids make songs that they’re proud of, you should see how they shine!

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Transforming Lives by Transforming Music Education

Music Will runs the largest nonprofit music program in the U.S. public school system. For over 20 years, we have provided teacher training, curriculum, resources, and instruments to restore and expand music education in thousands of schools nationwide.

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Music Will runs the largest nonprofit music program in the U.S. public school system. For over 20 years, we have provided teacher training, curriculum, resources, and instruments to restore and expand music education in thousands of schools nationwide.