Ricci Adams: MusicTheory.net
This website includes a very extensive list of lesson plans based on music theory. This lesson plans are completely interactive, allowing the use to see the notes being written and displayed as well as listen to the note for note identification. The interactive lessons would be a great way for the students to independently start exploring music. This website allows so many visuals, I think it can really compliment the teacher's instruction.
This website also has exercises, which are like interactive worksheets, where the students complete certain tasks based on the lesson. What I like about these exercises is that you can use the template already available or you can make your own, focusing on the specific skills, notes, etc that you are learning during that lesson.
This website also has an interactive piano that plays the note of the key when you click on it. This allows students to experience playing a piano without having one of their own.
How could you use this website in the classroom?
This website is a very useful tool for independent exploration. Because of the engaging and interactive lesson plans students are able to actively visualize and listen to the notes and their duration, placement, and pitch.
Once the students independently explore this website, the teacher can then bring them back together to give their own lesson on the subject matter of their choice. Then this website offers the neat feature of giving the students practice with key, scale, note, and pitch identification. This is great for General Education Classroom teachers who want to integrate music into their classroom without have the proper instruments.
The teacher can also customize an exercise to use as a assessment tool to see if the student was able to retain the knowledge presented in the lesson.
How could this site be used to extend learning beyond the classroom?
One of the cool features of this website is that it has a staff paper generator where you can print your own staff paper, either blank or piano. Students can then use the interactive piano to create a score which they can then record on their staff paper. This would allow students to create music using the sounds of the piano without actually having one. This site enables a very independent style of learning making it easily accessible to any student outside of the classroom. With the interactive nature of the site students can start to experience the wonders of music, and hopefully lead to an interest that will last a lifetime.
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