Before using any of the specially designed kid’s search engine links below, take the safe kids quiz about online safety.

Take a lesson on KidsClick! Worlds of Web Searching to improve your online search skills and to find out what is and is not on the web.

Visit the QUICK web site to learn how to tell if the information that you find on the Internet is reliable.

SEARCH ENGINES:

Ask for Kids is a question-answering search tool that uses natural language.

Award winning Awesome Library organizes the web with reviewed resources.

Fact Monster offers content from Information Please for kids.

Librarian created KidsClick! is a subject directory for elementary and middle school students. The amount of illustration and reading level is provided for each site located.

Yahoo Kids! is Yahoo's popular subject directory for children.

VISUAL AND SOUND SEARCH ENGINES:

Try KidsClick! Kid's Image Search Tools or Google Image Search for pictures.

Visit KidsClick! Kid's Sound Search Tools to locate natural sounds, listen to great speeches or to find many other interesting sounds.

Visit Cornell University Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library to watch and listen to animal behavior recordings. Recording for more than 80 years, the library has over 160,000 recordings representing 67% of the world's birds. Videos of more than 3,000 species may be viewed for free online too.

TIP-If you are not finding the information that you want, try another search tool or think of other keywords or search terms to try. And if you are still having trouble, take a lesson on KidsClick! Worlds of Web Searching or ask a librarian for help.

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