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Kid Friendly Search Tools

Use these kid-friendly search tools for elementary school research at homework time.
42eXplore by Topic
Start at this page at 42eXplore to find your research topic. This pathfinder approach will help you get straight to the best web sites on many topics.
ALA | Great Web Sites for Kids
Search the Librarian's picks for great web sites for kids.
KOL Homework Help Jr.
Directory of educator-reviewed Web sites for children in kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade.
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Type a question in natural language form to find sites for kids on that subject.
Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
School librarians know the web, so you will find excellent results when you search the Awesome Library.
Kid Safe Search at Google
Instructions to customize your search preferences at Google so that potentially inappropriate material does not show when your child does a Google search.
Kids Click! Web Search
More librarian picks generate high quality results for kids' research.
Kidspace at Internet Public Library
The ever-useful Internet Public Library will now be maintained and updated by a consortium of fourteen universities. Should be good!
Yahooligans
Consistently good results for kid-friendly web sites, though some bad links are found.

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