More Fantastic Sites for Everyone

  Ask Jeeves for Kids
A natural language search engine that is filtered. By natural langauage, you can enter in questions like "why is the sky blue."

Yahooligans!
 A database of about 20,000 sites that are kid safe. You can search or select from a directory

Education World
 A database of 56,000 sites.

KidsClick 
Put together by librarians for kids, the database, as of July, 1998, contained about 2600 records. Well organized and easy to use, though not as thorough as the others. Not a search engine but a compendium of great sites.


 

  Web Sites for Students, Parents, and Teachers compiled by
the Association for Library Service for Children

Infoplease

An online almanac, encyclopedia, and dictionary. This site also has a daily almanac, breaking news, and fun stuff.

FactMonster

Online dictionary, encyclopedia and almanac. Also homework help and some fun and games links. From Information Please.

Kids.Net.Au

This Australian site uses the Kids section of the Open Directory Project as the basis for its directory. Good collection of web sites for school work or just for fun.

CyberSleuth Kids

A searchable directory of web sites compiled by teachers.

Pandia Kids & Teens

This is a large directory of selected web sites.

First Gov for Kids

There is a wide variety of topics such as art, history, animals, and fun stuff at this US government site. It includes links to both goverment and commercial web sites.

KinderStart

KiderStart is a family-friendly portal with a searchable directory of web sites for both parents and children. This is a good site for the family that wants to surf together, but there are probably better sites for students who need information for school work.

EduPuppy

A directory of web sites for early childhood education

Cool Sites for Kids

This is an extensive listing of web sites for kids compiled by the Central Colorado Library System.

The Awesome Library for Kids

Sites are arranged by subject matter.

KidsSites.Com

A rather limited number of sites, but the ones included are good ones.

Surfing the Net With Kids

A guide to safe web sites by Barbara J. Feldman. There is also a good collection of games.

     

Ithaki for Kids

Metasearch site which searches directories such as Yahooligans and KidsClick

Dib, Dab, Doo, and Dilly, Too

Safe search engine with a very good directory of web sites for both children and teens.

OneKey.Com

OneKey uses a filtered search by Google to search the web. It also has a directory of web sites.

Family Source

This is a search engine which has indexed over one million pages. It has both information and shopping sites. Also, there seems to be many helpful sites for homeschoolers.

 



Sites for Filtering

Google

Go to the preferences section to turn on filtering of Google search results.

AltaVista

The family filter option is available from the settings page. The family filter option may also be protected with a password.

Lycos

Go to the Advanced Search section to set the adult content filter.

All The Web

Use the Customize Preference section to regulate content.

     

Fun and Educational Sites

Fun Brain

Lots of fun (and educational) games for students in grades K - 8.

Zeeks

Games, activities, educational materials and other interesting stuff.

Middle School Hub

Games and educational material for middle schoolers. Note that this site links to other hubs such as Kids Hub, High School Hub, Home Schoolers Hub, and Teachers Hub.

Enchanted Learning

Education, crafts, and games for the K-6 set.

Pauly's Playhouse

Fun games and activities for children ages 3 and up

 

Information about Child Safety on the Net

Get NetWise

Lots of information for adults concerned with child safety on the web. There is also information about computer viruses and preventing spam.

WebWise Kids

Child safety on the net with 7 smart rules of internet safety, links to safe sites, and news of current net safety legislation and conferences.

Stay Safe Online

There is information here about child safety on the net, and there is also very important information about guarding your computer from viruses and hacker attacks. Try taking the self test to find out how well prepared your computer is.

NetFamilyNews

Newsletter which will help parents keep up with events on the internet which will impact their children's and their own use of the Internet.

Common Sense Media

Reviews of TV, web sites, books, and music. Also, this site has articles on media use and abuse.

Spam Threatens Revenue, Kids

47% of children between the ages of 7 and 18 have received spam for x-rated sites, and 21% report reading their spam e-mail. Twenty-two percent say that their parents have never discussed spam with them. Study by Symantec in June of 2003.

Movie Mom

This web site sponsored by Yahoo will help you decide which movies are suitable for your children to view. It has movie ratings, suitable audience age, and a grading on movie quality.

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