Use kids search engines to find child safe sites

Either you are a teacher, parent or student and scouring the internet for any kind of information, better to start searching at 'Kids Search Engines' which provide child safe and family friendly links. Kids or students are also advised to use these safe search engines for search purposes.

• Smart Zone:  These Web sites have been specifically selected for educational use by EdView.  
• 'KidsClick' :  Excellent site created by librarians with a search engine of appropriate educational sites for students.
• K-12 INFOMINE Search Screen:  This is a searchable collection of instructional web sites
• Berit's Best Sites for Children: Search page:  Seach Berit's Best Sites.
  
• Education Planet - The Education Web Guide:  This is a searchable collection of educational web sites.
  
 
• Education World:  Large web site of educational links and a search engine feature to search these links.

• SuperKids SuperSearch:  This is a collection of educational web sites with a search feature as well as categories.
• K-12 World! SecureSearch™ :  A SecureSearch is safer for students and other users because it does not search the entire Internet, only those sites that have been approved for educational use.
  
• Schoolwork.org:  This is a searchable site of educational web sites.
  
• Awesome Library - Education Search Engine:  Database of 110,000+ sites related to educational topics.
  
• Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory for Kids:  Search engine with a kids category. (limited results)
  
• Blue Web'n Refined Search :  Search engine of good educational sites, with ratings and grade levels. However, this is a fairly small database, so use one or two keywords only.
  
• StudyWeb:  Doesn't give descriptions with first search results and some terms were hard to guess at the relevance. But the next level gives good descriptions of sites with ratings and approximate grade level provided.
  
• ThinkQuest:  This is a collection of educational sites created by middle and high school students for the ThinkQuest Contest.
  
• LookSmart: Exploring World - Reference & Education k-12 - For Teachers - curriculum content:  This is a search engine that searches educational curriculum content information gathered by educational sites.
  
• LookSmart: Exploring World - Reference & Education k-12 - For Teachers - Lesson Plans:  This is a search engine that searches lesson plans gathered by a number of educational sites.
• The WWW Virtual Library:  Searchable collection - may not be just geared to kids
  

Source: 'Educational Search Engines'

Useful links:
* 'Kids search engines and directories

* 'Ivy's Kids Search Engine Resources

* 'Child-Safe Search Engines and Educational Directories'

* A List of Education Search Engines

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