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Helpful Guides To Understanding Search Engines and How To Perform A Good Search:

Many times teachers need to find background information or to learn more about a topic. In order to do this, and to be sure that any information that will be utilized by students is appropriate, a teacher can find an online search engine to be very helpful. These websites contain  some tutorials that will provide search "techniques" that can be very helpful in making the search fulfill your needs.

The Spider's Apprentice

How To Search by 2Learn

A Short And Easy Search Tutorial

Recommended Search Engines For Adults To Use

Yahoo - A Topic Search

Ask Jeeves - depends on crawler-based technology to provide results

Altavista - Large Database,including images and videos

Educator's Reference Desk - A Great Search Engine For Educational Needs

Izquick - Searches many databases

Metacrawler - Searches many databases

Google - Large Very Popular Database, including videos and images

Mamma - Searches many databases

Microsoft Live Search Engine - Large database

Infomine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Web Sites Designed Especially For Students

Using Web Search Engines that have been designed especially for students, you will be assured to get information that is written at an age-appropriate level and that the found resources will contain wonderful age-appropriate images, graphs, and charts. The following are excellent to use to find websites suitable for your classroom  needs:

Recommended Search Engines To Use When Student, Age-Appropriate Information Is Needed:

Fact Monster - An almanac with many special features
Education World has "teamed up" with Fact Monster to provide excellent online Scavenger Hunts - see them at Fact Monster Archived Hunts

KidsClick - Search results provide reading levels of content

Little Explorers Dictionary With Links - Each letter of Little Explorers' dictionary has dozens of illustrated entries, most of them linked to external sites.

Ithaki Metasearch For Kids - This search engine really "crawls" out to many search engines, and selects those websites that are useful to a younger audience

 

The Internet Public Library For Kids - A special feature allows students to submit questions.

 

Quintura for Kids - a visual and intuitive search engine for children