Search engines and resources for teachers and students

Search engines and portals for students
General websites for students
North Carolina websites
History websites
Math, Technology, Engineering, and Science Resources
Technology for Girls
Environmental sites
Geography and the World Resources
Educational Games
Other websites with links to resources for students and teachers

Search engines and portals for children

www.ncwiseowl.org

NC WISE OWL is a Web site that has, as its centerpiece, several subscription databases. InfoTrac, a periodical database product by the Gale Group, is made up of a Kids Edition for elementary students, a Junior Edition for middle schoolers, and both the Student Edition and InfoTrac Gold Reference Edition for the high school and parent community. The Junior Reference Center and Kids InfoBits offer access to reference materials with a simplified format for greater ease of use. Also included in the Gale database collection is the Scribner Writers Series, with information on more than 1600 authors. Grolier Online offers two encyclopedias: The New Book of Knowledge for elementary and middle school students, and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for middle and high school students. Additional reference sources available include Lands & Peoples, Popular Science, America the Beautiful, and a collection of searchable eBooks in the Virtual Reference Center.

www.startsquad.org

North Carolina State Library's Portal for children

www.ithaki.net/kids

Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!.

scholar.google.com

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

www.ajkids.com

Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed.

www.kidsclick.org

Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

www.yahooligans.com

Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996. It has a strong focus on entertainment media for children.

ALA Great Web Site for Kids - www.ala.org/greatsites

An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous evaluation guidelines to assure high quality content, authority and "strength of character."

Awesome Library

Over 14,000 sites have been classified into a directory, specifically organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching.

Education World - www.education-world.com

Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.

Fact Monster - www.factmoster.com

Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.

Family Source - www.family-source.com

This focused crawler-based service has indexed nearly 1 million kid-friendly URLs.

FirstGov for Kids - www.kids.gov

From the U.S. Federal Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, grouped by subject.

Kids Search Tools - www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.

SearchEdu.com - www.searchedu.com/

Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.

Teach-nology.com - www.teach-nology.com/

Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.

TekMom's Search Tools for Students - www.tekmom.com/search/

All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.

ThinkQuest Library - www.thinkquest.org/library/

A free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.

General Sites for Students

New York Times Learning Network - www.nytimes.com/learning/students/

News articles and quizzes, Words of the Day, Science Questions and Answers, On This Day in History and much more.

National Geographic for Kids - www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Time Magazine for Kids - www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

BBC for Children

North Carolina

NC Web - www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/connectusa/ncweb.html

North Carolina Educational Web resources compiled by the NC Department of Public Instruction

www.ncpublicschools.org/students/aboutnc.html

NC DPI website with links to information about North Carolina

www.ncagr.com/markets/index.htm - North Carolina Department of Agriculture

A list of agricultural products from North Carolina and links to information

ncmuseumofhistory.org/thjha/index.html - NC Junior Historians

Links to information about North Carolina

History

www.historyforkids.org

Smithsonian Institute - www.si.edu

Stanford University links for resources about Sub-Saharan Africa

Internet East Asia History Sourcebook

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC's resources for history

Math, Technology, Engineering, and Science Resources

http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/ Adler Planetarium

http://www.nsa.gov/kids/ - Cryptokids - The NSA's website for children about cryptography

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration - US

A great site for learning about weather, our oceans, air, and our atmosphere!

Math Forum@Drexel mathforum.org

Great resource for problem-solving problems and puzzles for all ages.

Aunty Math - www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/

Math problems for children of various ages; Aunty Math is a favorite.

www.exploratorium.edu - The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse www.goenc.com

From the Dept. of Education. Has ideas and information for teaching math and science and web links to sites for educators and students

Everyday Mathemathics Center -everydaymath.uchicago.edu/parents/index.shtml

Articles regarding best practices in mathematics and suggested activities for children

Technology for Girls

Girls Go Tech - www.girlsgotech.org - The Girl Scout's website for Girls to learn about technology

http://www.alice.org/ - A programming language for girls!

http://www.engineergirl.org/ - A site by the National Academy of Engineers for Girls!

http://express.howstuffworks.com/ - How stuff works - A site that integrates mathematics, science, technology, and reading in a fun and interesting way!

Environmental Sites

http://www.envirolink.org/ - Envirolink - An online environmental community

Geography and the world

earth.google.com/

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

maps.google.com/maps

A searchable of the world (does not include all regions of the world at this time)

- http://www.planning.org/KidsAndCommunity/index.htm City Planning for kids

http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus/ Cyber school bus - the United Nation's website for exploring the world and diverse cultures.

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html The CIA's world factbook

Educational Games

PBS Kids

Other websites with links to resources for students

Durham County Library - www.durhamcountylibrary.org

North Carolina in the World is a statewide collaborative effort to strengthen K-12 international education. The international education resource center provides teachers with a launching point for teaching and learning on the web.

Smithsonian Education Website

Information & Resources for Teachers, Families & Students

Community School Resources - www.communityschool.net/Student_Resources.htm

Community School in Roanoke, VA's links for student resources on the web

Durham Academy's links for student resources on the web

Morehead Montessori's Links to resources on the web

www.nabss.org/irsearch.htm

National Association of British Schools in Spain listing of websites for Children

www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Rampapo Catskill Library System search page for children