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Tools for Students and Teachers Searching the Web
Teacher Friendly Search Engines
Early Education Teachers
Student Friendly Search Engines
Tools for Students and Teachers Searching the Web
Kids Tools for Searching the Internet: This page of 17 search tools for teachers and kids helps find search words for a topic, basic information on a topic, web sites for kids, and web sites for teachers.
Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Purpose: Teachers and students can use this guide to help them determine the best search strategy (and engine to use) based on the type of information needed.
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Teacher Friendly Search Engines
Ask Jeeves for Schools: Ask Jeeves has two search engines for teachers to use. AJ Kids is a kid friendly question and answer service designed for use in the classroom. Ask Jeeves is the "grown-up" Q&A service that answers questions AJKids cannot.
EduHound.com: A highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links for educators, students and parents. EduHound.com seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool.
Google: Returns important, relevant hits quickly with bold terms.
Ixquick Metasearch: Metasearches the biggest engines using your refined search (can use phrase, boolean logic, wildcards) and returns results ranked in their top ten.
Lii - Basic Search Advice: The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,100 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness. This site is meant to be used as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
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Early Education Teachers
EduPuppy.com: A prescreened database of links provides a comprehensive cornerstone for Early Childhood Educators (PK-2) using the Internet. This easy to navigate site allows users to search by categories and keywords, making their web experience effective and efficient.
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Student Friendly Search Engines
Ask Jeeves for Kids: AJ Kids is a kid friendly question and answer service designed for use in the classroom. Students can ask a question in plain English and AJ Kids takes them to one web site that answers their question.
Yahooligans: A search engine for kids. Contains only kid-appropriate information.
KidsClick!: A search engine for children created by librarians meant guide young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites. Very kid friendly and accurate site!
Bigchalk.com: Bigchalk allows users to search by subject area and within their age group (Elementary, Middle School, High School and Beyond).
EdView: Search this database of teacher-selected, student-appropriate websites that are categorized by topic and grade level. The site also provides links associated with "this day in history," a "site of the day," and sites related to current holidays.
CyberSleuthKids: An online search engine and guide for students in grades K-12. The goal of this site is to provide a safe educational online database of links to help the student sift through the maze of information.
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For more information please contact
Stacy Avery Project Director, Project E-Teach, Education Service Center, Region XIII.
For technical support please contact Shaunda Guthrie Technical Program Assistant, Project E-Teach, Education Service Center, Region XIII.
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