Please see the update here with more websites, kid-friendly browsers, citation resources, how to research, and a poster!
Quick, safe spots to send your students for research:
- All-around research site libraryspot.com
- Dictionary www.dictionary.com
- Edutainment site—requires subscription www.brainpop.com/
- General info research www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
- History Channel–great speeches at http://www.history.com/speeches
- Internet research sites for kids http://ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html
- Kids search engine for the internet kids.yahoo.com
- Math, reading, arcade edutainment www.funbrain.com
- National Geographic for kids kids.nationalgeographic.com/
- Nova video programs www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
- Research for kids www.factmonster.com/
- Research—chapters on subjects http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/
- Research—history http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
- School Tube—learning videos from YouTube. Organized by topics http://sqooltube.com/
- Thesaurus—a great one www.thesaurus.com
- World Book Online (subscription required) www.worldbookonline.com/kids
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Check out http://mrnussbaum.com/ this is a great website I use for projects in my Elementray school technology classroom.
I’ve seen this one. You’re re–lots of good materials.
Gr 5 have a task, to show with a bar graph the positive or negative effect music have on students studying for a test .Please help this mother is hands in the hair.
Hi Wanda
Collect the data on Excel, then highlight and push F11. Here’s a link with more detail: http://askatechteacher.com/2011/11/01/tech-tip-57-how-to-create-a-chart-really-fast/. Good luck!
Hi!
I have recently started a new educational site for kids: http://www.AskZacky.com.
The site is NOT a seach engine (like many of them out there)
and hence site does not redirect kids to other sites by providing links: the site simply and directly replies to kids and answers their questions fully (they way Ask.com used to be!). This site offers amazing and innovative kids design and monitors its content extremely closely to make sure all the contect is suitable for kids. Kids can ask questions falling onto 12 categories as well as questions not
falling onto any category listed (like personal questions). Our main goal is to serve needs of
curious children and answer/explain most complex topics to them using a simple language.
And one of the most amazing feature of this site is that it offers monthly prizes to most active site users!!
Looks good. Thanks for sharing.
I use this site all the time for useful stuff thanks.
Thanks, Gavin!
KidzSearch.com is a great safe resource for kids for their school research.