Teaching students how to properly research on the internet is a difficult task. With the right tools, teachers can help students find reliable, meaningful information. Help your students conduct online research using these safe, effective search engines and websites.
Kidtopia – Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator-approved websites.
SafeSearchKids – Safe Search for Kids is a powerful, safe search tool that filters search results to enhance your students’ safe search experience. Powered by Google.
KidsClick! – Annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. Searchable by subject, reading level and degree of picture content.
SweetSearch – SweetSearch is a search engine for students. It searches only credible websites approved by Internet research experts.
KidRex – Fun and safe search for kids, by kids.
Famhoo – Kid and family-friendly search engine, filtered search results that remove adult content. Great for all ages.
OneKey – OneKey has partnered with Google to keep kids safe on the Internet.
KidzSearch – Family-friendly safe search engine for children.
Primary School Safe Search – Primary School Safe Search is a great place to start internet sessions for children and teachers. Internet searches are filtered.
FactMonster – Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents.
Kiddle – Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids powered by Google, offering safe kids web, image, and video search.
GoogleScholar – Google Scholar is a search engine designed to search scholarly journals, Supreme Court records, and patent records. In some cases, the results will link to abstracts of books and articles that you will then have to obtain from a library or book retailer. In other cases, results will link to fully viewable documents.
refseek – Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.
WolframAlpha – WolframAlpha is a computational search engine. If students have any questions involving numbers, Wolfram Alpha is the place to go. Wolfram Alpha can be used for other searches, but it’s not nearly as useful for general inquiries as it is for computational questions.
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Thank you for including our Kidtopia in you search engine list.
Recently a user had this to say about Kidtopia: “‘Kidtopia’s user-friendly (design?) allows the reader to explore a variety of topics… Students in all grades would be able to navigate this site and with support find the research necessary for research completion. I quite enjoyed exploring the Adventure Island where hovering, clicking, and scrolling catapulted me into unknown topics, appropriate videos, and articles. Kidtopia and its partners provide instruction, ideas, and information for all learners. Definitely a WIN-WIN for teacher and student!
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Thanks,
Dr. Michael Bell
Former Chair, Tex. Assoc. of School Librarians
Thanks for including Kidtopia.info in this list. Kidtopia is a student-safe search engine for two reasons:
1. We only index websites recommended by teachers and librarians.
2. Kidtopia uses a strict Google safe search filter in every searth.
Besides Kidtopia (grades prek-3), our other safe search engines include https://www.infotopia.info (grades 4-9), https://www.virtuallrc.com (grades 9-12), and https://www.infotrek.info (grades 12- up).
Thanks, Dr. Michael Bell, former Chair, Texas Association of School Librarians
Awesome! Thank you for providing a list of Kid-friendly search engines. I have tried Kidzsearch and Google Scholar only. Will share and try these search engines too. Thank you!