WOW Kids

Welcome Ames Elementary students!

Ages 6-10


Ace Kids Universal Studios Kids Play Room
Alfy Juice Bottle Jingles
Coloring.com Mr. Bones
Crayola PBS Kids
CyberKids Planet Zoom
Discovery Channel Seussville
Disney UNICEF
Fox Kids White House for Kids

Try these popular search engines for kids:

Ask Jeeves for Kids
- ask question, backup metasearch/filtered by SurfWatch

Yahooligans
- a good first site to visit

Ages 11-14


A Girls World…for girls only!!! National Geographic
Crayon Nine Planets
CyberTeens Smithsonian
Einstein’s Fun & Games Wacky Web Tales
Looney Toons Teach the Internet The Why Files
Midlink Magazine 4-H
NASA Kids 100 Hot Kids Sites

Try these popular search engines for kids:

Ask Jeeves for Kids
- ask question, backup metasearch/filtered by SurfWatch

Yahooligans
- a good first site to visit

Activity: Using a familiar topic, do the same keyword search in each student search engine. Which search engine gave you the best information?

Ages 15-18


Boy Scouts Higher Education
The Exploratorium Library of Congress
Eyewitness The Mad Scientist
Girl Scouts Monster Careers Network
Health and Fitness The Telegarden

Try these popular search engines for youth.

Ask Jeeves for Kids
- ask question, backup metasearch/filtered by SurfWatch

Yahooligans
- a good first site to visit

InferenceFind
- parallel web searching, merges results, removes redundancies, clusters hits

AltaVista
- after you search, use the REFINE button to narrow your list of 'hits'

Northern Light
- organizes your 'hits' into folders to narrow your searching area

Activity: Using a familiar topic, do the same keyword search in each student search engine. Which search engine gave you the best information?

For some Great Searching Tips and Tricks to make your work easier,
go to WOW's Searching Techniques page.

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