A great page that lists many student friendly search engines for
K-8 students
to use.
KidsSearch
A great place to start a search with dozens of student friendly
search engines.
Springfield Library Student Search Portal
Another page that has compiled kid's search engines into one
place
for easy use when searching. Includes specialized searches and
web guides on
many subjects kids search.
Ivy's Internet Seach Engines for Kids
A subject directory search page especially for kids. Created and
updated by Librarians.
KidsClick
Kids' dictionary, almanac, atlas, timelines, homework center, and
more.
Factmonster
Internet Public Library kids page. Searches websites by topics
and
subtopics.
Kidspace
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that
have been
reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and
research experts.
In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and
approved by Sweet
Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search
offers five
niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social
Studies,
Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area),
School
Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school
students).
SweetSearch
Kids use puzzle pieces to build a search query...sites are pulled
based on Google safe search results. (semi-filtered..not 100%)
Good tool to get kids thinking about how to build a search query.
Boolify
Ask Kids is the kid friendly, kid safe version of the popular
search engine
Ask.com.
Ask Kids
Nettrekker-subscription based-can be accessed when at school or
via login account outside of school. A search portal that
contains 180,000+
websites that have been evaluated for content. Available for
teachers and
students.
Nettrekker