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Search Engines For Children
Retrieving Age/Ability Appropriate Information

These are Search Engines designed especially for students. They provide the basis for "guided" searching and the results will always be information that students can understand and use. There are still many cautions that must be taken when students search for information. They must learn how to evaluate websites in order to validate and value the content. There is more information about Developing Information Literacy in another section of this website.

A good article for reading about Searching The Internet For Students:
Searching With Savvy: The Best Search Engines For Teachers and Students

Recommended Search Engines To Use When Student, Age-Appropriate Information Is Needed:

Fact Monster
An almanac with many special features
Education World has "teamed up" with Fact Monster to provide excellent online Scavenger Hunts - see them at Fact Monster Archived Hunts

KidsClick  
Search results provide reading levels of content

Little Explorers Dictionary With Links
Each letter of Little Explorers' dictionary has dozens of illustrated entries, most of them linked to external sites.

Ithaki Metasearch For Kids -This Search Engine "crwls' out to many websites and selects results appropriate to students.

  

The Internet Public Library For Kids - A special feature allows students to submit questions.

 

 Quintura for Kids - a visual and intuitive search engine for children