Welcome Ames Elementary students!
Ages 6-10
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
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.