Child-friendly+Search+Engines

**Child-friendly Search Engines:**
This page provides descriptions and links to search engines designed especially for children. These search engines endeavour to filter out websites that are age-inappropriate (for example because of dodgy content or because they are a PHD thesis etc). I suggest you explore them all and make one of them your classroom homepage.

//Click on the image to get to the search engine:// = **General search engines for children:** =
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.19.58.png width="225" height="77" link="@http://www.kidsclick.org/"]] || //KidsClick// is a search engine designed and moderated by librarians. ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.15.58.png width="229" height="81" link="@http://www.awesomelibrary.org/"]] || The Awes//ome Library// is a librarian-reviewed engine that organises the web with 37000 sites, including the top 5 percent in education. ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.05.54.png width="230" height="57" link="@http://kids.aol.com/"]] || Ame//rica on Line// for Kids, offers games, social networking, blogging as well as a search engine. ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.14.20.png width="230" height="72" link="@http://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/"]] || The children's section of the //Open Directory Project.// This is apparantly the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a global community of volunteer editors ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.23.54.png width="229" height="75" link="@http://www.askkids.com/"]] || //Ask Kids// allows children to ask 'natural language' questions in the search engine box (it is a little clumsy!) ||
 * = **Specialist search engines for children:** = ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.32.25.png width="226" height="59" link="@http://www.howstuffworks.com/"]] || Search to find out how stuff works ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.34.22.png width="232" height="72" link="@http://kidshealth.org/kid/"]] || Search to find out about health-related issues and topics ||
 * [[image:riverviewict/Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.36.31.png width="237" height="98" link="@http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html"]] || //Animal Diversity Web// is a search engine for animal-related information ||
 * [[image:Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.39.20.png width="232" height="74" link="@http://www.lawforkids.org/Search?view=search"]] || Search //Law for Kids// to find out about the law ||
 * [[image:Snap_2011-11-09_at_10.41.11.png width="234" height="74" link="@http://www.searchnz.co.nz/"]] || //Search NZ// is a NZ-specific search engine. It is not designed specifically for children however. ||