Educational Search Engines relevant for K-12 children

There are many excellent educational search engines for education users that provide students with relevant search results that can be used either at home or in the classroom. When students find good search engines that they can rely on, it boosts their confidence in doing homework and classwork as well.

Here are five sites that are specifically geared toward K-12 students;

1. Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that lists the full text of scholarly literature across a wide range of publishing formats and disciplines. It was released in beta in November 2004. The index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature. Although Google does not publish the size of Google Scholar’s database, third-party researchers as of May 2014 estimated it to contain about 160 million documents.

2. Lumos EdSearch EdSearch is a comprehensive directory of standards-aligned educational resources. Using EdSearch, students and educators can discover thousands of standards aligned educational apps, videos, books, worksheets, pins and much more. It also includes ready access to thousands of grade-appropriate sample practice questions. Additionally, it also lists the location, scores, and related information about schools, libraries, school supply stores, conferences, and bookstores.

The best capability of the tool is that it includes a platform through which an educator can create and assign personalized resource kits to your students. Students can practice sample questions on the same platform too. Try Lumos EdSearch here:

3. KidsRex KidRex is a child-safe search engine powered by Google Custom Search. The SafeSearch feature enables the site to maintains its database of inappropriate websites and keywords and the site has a colorful hand-drawn crayon and colored marker design.

4. Infotopia Infotopia is an academic search engine designed for students and teachers. It is also an excellent choice for homeschoolers. It was created by Dr. Michael Bell and Carole Bell. Infotopia uses a Google custom search to provide accesses to some previously vetted websites that were carefully selected by educational professionals including some librarians and teachers. It features tabs on a series of different topics like Arts, Biography, Games, and Health. Each tab is designed in such a way that it opens up to more subject links. Readers will also find a blog which elaborates more on teacher-recommended resources.

5. Ask Kids Ask Kids is a search engine designed for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that’s safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines. Studies prove that visual learning improves children’s comprehension, retention, critical thinking, and organization. Ask Kids was built with this in mind and organizes search results in a graphical display. This mostly includes SmartAnswers and related images, current events and encyclopedia results. Each website in the Ask Kids core search index was selected by the editorial team of Ask Kids as child-appropriate or as a relevant and practical site for reference and learning. Some features are; Dictionary Search, Famous People Search, Weather Search, School Questions, Information about Math

Based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Scholar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidRex http://www.infotopia.info/testimonials.html
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  1. Thank you for including Infotopia.info in your “EDUCATIONAL SEARCH ENGINES RELEVANT FOR K-12 CHILDREN”. A reviewer recently had this to say about the site, “”Another great site is Infotopia. Infotopia combines the best of both worlds – internet safe search using Google’s SafeSearch and a compilation of quality, content specific sites. Using Infotopia, students also have access to opinion polls, reference materials, current events/news, and language learning sites. In my opinion, Infotopia is more geared toward upper elementary through secondary students…
    Jeremy Bunker , Safe Internet Search Tools for Students”

     
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