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| Kids Click http://www.kidsclick.org/ KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites. Ask http://www.ask.com/ A natural language site that attempts to find the best match to a given question Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ The Awesome Library provides only resources that have been reviewed and found to be of high quality for our users. In that sense, all of the resources are highly rated at the time of review. In order to be included in the Awesome Library, resources need to meet all of the standards below. - Only child-safe links - Useful for teachers, students ("kids" or "teens"), parents, or librarians - "Real Stuff" (Actual documents, projects, pictures, and discussion groups) - Current - Load quickly - Small percentage of "dead" links - Best version available Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ The Fact Monster site is unique in combining essential reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help for kids. From the solar system to spelling tips to the latest on Harry Potter, Fact Monster has the information kids are seeking, all in one easy-to-use, searchable site. In July 2001, it won a coveted Webby Award for Best Kids Site. The Fact Monster website is the basis for the TIME FOR KIDS Almanac. CyberSleuth Kids http://cybersleuth-kids.com/ Welcome to CyberSleuth-Kids.Com, an online search engine and guide for the K-12 student. CyberSleuth-Kids is the creation of the hard work of a teacher and the volunteers that make this site possible. The goal of CyberSleuth-Kids is to provide a safe educational online database of links to help the student sift through the maze of information. KidRex http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology. Quitura Kids http://quinturakids.com/ Visualization becomes the center of user experience replacing antiquated listings and Boolean strings. Boolify http://www.boolify.org/index.php# Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. Kids’ Tools for Searching the Internet http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Collection of search tools all in one location. DMOZ http://dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/ About the Kids and Teens Open Directory Project As the web grows, automated search engines and directories with small editorial staffs will be unable to cope with the volume of sites. The Kids and Teens Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web for people under the age of 18, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors. K-12 Student Resources http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Student_Resources/ Collection of sites from Yahoo! KidzSearch http://www.kidzsearch.com/ The KidzSearch homepage is your signal that safe internet results will be returned. Further, all our search result pages have a green stripe at the top as your signal that the results are filtered. This allows parents and educators to more easily monitor things. We suggest always using this tool under adult supervision. KidzSearch provides an easy free solution for safe internet usage when kids use their computer from any location, since parents can be given instructions on which search engine they should be using for their studies. Sweet Search http://www.sweetsearch.com/ SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites. |