Teaching for Information Literacy

Kids' Search Engines

The kid-safe directories below use human beings to filter out sites that might be considered objectionable for viewing by children.

• Ask for Kids
• KidsClick
• Yahoo Kids
• Quintura for Kids
  
• GoGooligans
• KidRex
  
• RedZee
  

Quintura - a visual search engine is one of the best children's search engines to be found. It is a particularily useful tools for students to use when they begin their research. Typically most students begin with a very broad search topic. Quintura provides a visual look how they can narrow and focus their search.

After entering the search term, Quintura presents a tag cloud of words. Moving the cursor to the word that most closely matches the search term causes the to cloud to rearrange around that term. You glide though the Internet this way, until you have ’steered’ yourself to the best results; even if its something you did not know was there when you began your search.

Other Search Tools

• American Library Association: Great Sites for Kids
• FactMonster

10 Search Engines for Kids (June 2010)

Google Filtering Options

See the SafeSearch help page for instructions on setting up filtering on a permanent or as-needed basis.