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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.

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.

SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts. This one is neat as it has subject specific searches within Sweet Search. It also has a content area that allows students to explore on their own, ways to safely search the internet.

This would be a good "safe" search engine for students to use

A reliable search engine

This website is a great resource because it provides 12 great academic search engines that teachers and students can use in the classroom. Search engines make it easier and safer for students because they narrow the search down, using only selected sites pertaining to the specific content area.

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."

This website shows how to make a google search engine customized. This will be used in our lesson for online intelligence for more help and instructions for the students to make their own customized 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.

A Kid-Friendly search engine. "Safe search for kids, by kids!"

A kid safe search engine that contains quality information

A reliable 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.

Clustering search engine.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

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 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