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You can say that kids are sufficiently net savvy these days. However, some search engines make be dangerous for young children. This website proves a list of 10 child-friendly search engines to allow children to conduct research on topics that are interesting to them.

If creating a personal Google search engine is too time consuming, here are seven student-friendly search engines. Chapter 6: Finding & Evaluating Resources

Kid friendly search engines are important when you want to filter what your student or child is able to see.

This is a direct link to create a custom search engine through Google.

A site that teachers can use to make custom search engines for their classrooms.  These search engines can be as broad or specific as the teacher chooses. The tutorial video is very helpful to get you started!

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine. It also includes specific instructions for creating a search engine of videos for use in the classroom.

Students need to know how to find and curate information from the web. Learning how to effectively search for information on the Internet is something that teachers are not teaching their students how to do because they assume their students know how to conduct an effective search. Provided in this link is searching skills and vocabulary that will help teachers teach their kids how to effectively search.

Google Custom Search twitter account is a great way to discover how the search engine functions. It is also a could source to collect ideas on different ways to use the search engine in general or even in the classroom. The twitter account's default reads: "News, tips and updates from the Custom Search team."

Clustering search engine.

Kiddle - visual search engine for kids, powered by editors and Google Custom Search. Great, appropriate database for students to use in a school setting.

This is a step by step video tutorial on YouTube that helps you set up a custom Google Search Engine.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

Defines and explains the components of a search engine, web portal, and Boolean logic. Uses video and transcript to provide information. Tests comprehension with a quiz.

Defines and explains the components of a search engine, web portal, and Boolean logic. Uses video and transcript to provide information. Tests comprehension with a quiz.

This is a web page with a good list of search engines and their links.

This video is extremely helpful because it walks a person through using a search engine. The article on this same site also relates useful information. One part of the article reads: "This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently."

Information Literacy search engine

This is a lesson plan for teaching students which links are good links and how to get the best results from their search.

New app promises educators they'll spend less time photocopying and more time teaching. Google Classroom is a great way for students and teachers to communicate, collaborate, share assignments and get graded. Google Classroom brings together many different features of Google; therefore, allowing students to search on student-friendly, custom search engines. Google Classroom will also allow students to continue using many other great Google features that are reliable such as Google scholar.

This is a good website of a list of some kid-friendly search engines that you could use in your classroom. Although, I would not use AskForKids.

This is a Google Custom Search Engine that just searches sites that have SMART Notebook files to download.