11.10.08
Posted in Interactive Sites at 5:10 pm by Abby
Like the title says, another interactive music website that I have managed to find is the one for PBS Kids! This is a nice game site for younger kids that are learning about music. The colors are bright without being distracting (so not too bright), and the pictures are large and of happy cartoon characters from PBS. The site has a long of good songs that have kids sing about being healthy and making good choices, and also has several different games under The Music Box, though the games tended to load a bit more slowly on the computer than the rest of the site. There’s also an area that has songs about locations around the world, as well as about varoius states.
Overall, I think it’s a nice site that uses music to teach young children important skills and beginning knowledge about the world that they live in.
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10.30.08
Posted in Interactive Sites at 1:03 pm by Abby
Resuming my quest for good ‘game’ sites that are music based, I came across this place. Music Tech Teacher is a more professionally organized and arranged interactive website for learning about music than the Sphinx Kids site. MTT also has a good hundred links or so for educating viewers about instruments, music theory, music history, musical styles and genres, and probably some other things that I’m not listening. There’s even some Rhythmic Math games, so not only does this site teach music, but it’s successfully integrating other curriculums into it as well!
It has quizzes on specific composers, specific musical styles, musical theory… pretty much everything. I’d say this would be a wonderful site to have kids visit that are in the later grade school, or the Junior High age level. High Schooler’s would probably benefit from this as well if you can get them to actually do it.
This site even includes printable worksheets for music!
All in all, a very good find!
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10.24.08
Posted in Interactive Sites, Music at 11:31 am by Abby
On my quest for finding good and useful interactive websites that might be used by my students either in class or out of class, I have come across this nifty little site, called Sphinx Kids.
It’s not the best of sites, but it has a nice use of bright and appealing colors and would be fun for the younger to middle range of general music grades. Maybe up to fifth grade. The games are simple, and I really like the interations that you can do for learning about composers. Overall, a good little site to keep track of possible future use.
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