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Alta Vista lets you enable their kid friendly filter by selecting "AV Family Filter" from the links below the main search box, in the "Specialty Searches" section. |
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Ask Kids allows users to ask a question in plain English, confirms the question, then takes them to one web site that answers the question. | |
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Boolify makes advanced web searches easy through a simple drag-and-drop interface. Intended as an educational tool, Boolify teaches users how to create boolean searches in Google using operators like OR and NOT (-) to get very specific search results. | |
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Cyber Sleuth Kids is an internet search guide for the K-12 student. |
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Dib Dab Doo and Dilly too… is a child friendly search engine that uses computer technology to filter in approved kid safe sites. It offers links to all sorts of categories for fun and learning. |
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DMOZ is an open directory project with over 44,000 sites listed. |
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Family-Friendly Sites emblems are intended to support the online safety of family members using the Internet. They appropriately offer websites a designation that will be easily recognized by family members and other Internet users. |
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Kid Cyber provides easy to understand text for student research, including material for primary school students K-6 with an easy to navigate format. It also contains units of work and lesson plans for teachers on a variety of topics in key learning areas as well as “Ask a kidcyber Researcher” feature where students can request specific information about a topic. There is also a section with advice to parents about helping with school homework assignments and projects. |
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Kid - Friendly Search contains kid- friendly links for students (and teachers) that was designed and maintained by an elementary school teacher in Florida, who set out to allay parent concerns and help her students find kid friendly sites. The Kid-Friendly search contains an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet site. |
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The KIDOZ browser is a protected environment made for young kids that enables children to surf sites, watch videos and play games. The system blocks links, scripts and any other attempts that lead to sites and content which have not been approved, preventing them being viewed by the children. |
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KidZui gives kids the freedom to explore the Internet safely. It has millions of kid-friendly You Tube videos, online games and websites. All of the sites have been pre-screened and approved by editorial staff, teachers, and parents. |
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KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results
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KidsKonnect has kidshomework and educational help - a safe Internet gateway for kids created & maintained by educators. KidsKonnect links to a variety of approved websites. |
| The Kids Search Tools site provides links to kids search sites. | ||
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Kidsites is your guide to the best kids sites on the web. |
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Linkasaurus offers hundreds of official kids sites in one place! |
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The Internet is a wonderful place for your child to learn, play and explore. The staff at LinkOpedia has put together a list of sites suitable for children 3 to 10. All links have been visited and are considered to be kid friendly web sites. Have Fun! |
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Poptropica® was developed by Family Education Network (FEN), the makers of Funbrain.com The popularity of Funbrain in schools prompted FEN to use its expertise to build a unique online experience for kids to enjoy during their free time. In September 2007, FEN launched Poptropica®, a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Accessibility to this world for kids is important to the creators, which is why the Poptropica® Islands are free for all kids to play. |
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Quintura Kids is the first visual and intuitive search engine for children with content filter and safe browsing. |
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Schoolr is a site that ties the functionality of Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Reference.com, a citation builder, foreign language translator, unit converter, and a book summary into one website. |
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Start Squad is part of "The very best place to start" : library awareness campaign. It aims to elevate libraries to "top of mind" for parents, caregivers, and others who want to connect children and teens with learning and discovery. Developed collaboratively by the North Carolina library community, this Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) project is federally-funded and research-based. |
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Super Kids is designed to provide a directoryof useful resources suitable for children. Included are sections on Animals, Nature, Computers and Games as well as much more. |
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SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that their staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. They exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines |
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Yahoo Kids! is the ultimate web guide for kids! Features fun and educational resources for kids with games, animals, music, jokes, movies, news, astrology, and more. |
Student Resources
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Awesome Library for Kids organizes the web with thousands of carefully reviewed resources. |
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| The Bibliography Help site will help you prepare a bibliography for a project. | ||
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BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper is an educational site and academic oasis. A library of educational links provides users with information covering almost every topic that comes to mind. The site is constructed so that each category is broken into subcategories. This homework hub is a wonderful aid to students across the board. |
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Brainy Quote is categorized by topic or searchable by keyword or author. This site provides hundreds of quotations. |
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CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game that improves math skills for 1st - 5th graders as they practice and compete with peers around the world. |
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The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.produced Copyright for Kids. It is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1953 to foster interest in and advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art, the theater, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property. |
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The U.S. Department of Justice has added a Kids Page where you can learn the answers to questions about the Department of Justice. |
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The Discovery Education site helps students find resources to master the basics in math, science, english, social studies and other subject areas. Videos and tutorials explain basic operations and help with the mastery of skills. | |
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Enchanted Learning produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. |
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Entomology for Kids and Teachers is a great support for a study of pollinators. The entomology resources include state standards based lesson plans for grades k-12, teacher resources (field guides, trade book lists, and recommended websites), and fact sheets on critters and insects, especially ones common in and around the school yard. If you live in a rural area, the page describing how to create a honeybee hive will help to involve students in a variety of pollinator protection activities. |
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Fact Monster is a kid friendly almanac produced by Information Please. |
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More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains Fed Stats to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. |
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Game Classroom is a one-stop web destination for accessing high-quality educational games, and homework help for K-6 students. Game Classroom offers math games, homework help, worksheets and more. It is a great site for kids, parents and teachers. |
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Giggle Poetry contains hundreds of poems to read and rate. |
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The Guide to American Flags site illustrates the clear evolution of the stars and stripes. |
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Homework Center offers help with geography, history, language arts, math, science and social studies. |
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Homework Hub provides students with the opportunity to get help and direction in completing various assignments from doing research, improving skills, and organizing homework. |
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How To Study contains more than 80 free, practical study skills articles. |
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The United States Census Bureau developed the American Fact Finder Kids' Corner in the effort to include children as active design technology partners. They offer facts on the United States in an easy to understand mode. |
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| KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years. | ||
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The Kids in the House website is a public service provided by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Our mission is to provide educational and entertaining information about the legislative branch of the United States Government to students of all ages. Topics covered include the role of the U.S. House of Representatives, the legislative process, and House history. |
The Kids Public Library Spot covers homework, games, books, and much more. |
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Learn Your Tables is a neat little site for students to use to learn and develop multiplication skills. The site offers two basic games on two different levels. The most basic game is a simple drag and drop activity in which students match equations to their correct answers. The more "advanced" game has students enter the correct answer to a multiplication question. The easier of the two levels only contains problems from one multiplication table while the more difficult level contains problems from multiple multiplication tables. |
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Legal Match is a listing of government Agency pages for kids. |
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Lifelines Homework Help Site is designed to be a useful, easily accessible directory of excellent scholastic resources on the Internet. Designed to support public schools, libraries, parents and teachers, the site is structured to facilitate your search for help with homework and other school projects in all of the major K-12 academic subject areas. |
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Math Live is a very nice mathematics website developed by Learn Alberta . Math Live presents students with animated stories that teach mathematics lessons. In all there are twenty-three lessons for elementary school and middle school students. The lessons are divided into four categories; Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, Statistics and Probability. Each animated lesson is accompanied by a mathematics worksheet that students complete either while watching the lesson or after viewing the lesson. Each lesson is divided into sections and students can advance or rewind as needed. |
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Math Playground is a site true to its name; it's jam-packed with math problems disguised as fun games. Created by a math teacher and educational consultant, there's nothing fluffy on the site. Games that require specific and complex skills, tutorial videos (made by students), logic puzzles, beginning programming, and an amazing supply of word problems are all here. |
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MIKIDS provides all kinds of computer lessons for grades K-8. |
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The Multi Cultural Calendar site allows you to investigate holidays and festivals of the world by month, holiday, or country |
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My Timeline builder will help you construct a timeline, adding events, descriptions, and images that help bring content alive. |
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The National Geographic site offers inks to great games, activities, and more in the field of geography. |
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Newseum is an interactive museum of news with behind the scenes views of how and why news is made. Hands on exhibits trace five centuries of news gathering. |
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At OUR TIMELINES students can generate a timeline about the events that have happened in their lives, and then research the events that interest them. |
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Middle school students will find the following resources from QRDecoder helpful whether studying math, language, science, social studies, art and music, or working on a foreign language. |
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R U Organized includes many tips and hints, as well as other things to help you with organization. It includes tips from students and some other important, busy people, on how they get organized. It has things that can help you, such as a customizable calendar for you to keep track of important dates, and assignment sheets. |
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Serenata Hampers provides this Law Guide for students. |
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Science Bob is a website by "Science Bob" Pflugfelder that aims to make science fun and interesting for kids. Although kids are asked to enter an email address, age, and city of residence when submitting science questions to the site, its privacy policy says personally identifiable information won't ever be posted. |
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Starfall helps students have fun and inspires a love of reading and writing. |
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Tek Mom offers resources for students. |
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Produced by the Commerce Department, the U.S. Census Bureau site contains a wealth of information |
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WordGirl is an animated series that follows the every day life and superhero adventures of “WordGirl” as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day’s work. This is the web site that accompanies the series. |
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The World Flag Database offers large, clear printable flag graphics and quick country profiles. |
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This is the site for the Los Angeles Zoo. It offers lots of information about animals and plants. |
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Zoobooks is a virtual zoo which offers pictures and information and also contains games for students to play. |
