INTRODUCTION
Scope of this Project
Standards Addressed
COMPARING SEARCH ENGINES
Introduction
Evaluation Criteria
Comparison Chart
SEARCH ENGINES FEATURED
AOL@SCHOOL
Ask Jeeves Kids
Awesome Library
CyberSleuth Kids
KidsClick
Librarians' Internet Index
OneKey (Google Safe Search)
Open Directory Project (Kids and Teens)
Yahooligans!
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Elementary Lesson Plan
Middle/High School Lesson
Interactive Search Tool Finder
FEEDBACK
Education Search Features
Your Favorite Search Engine
ABOUT ME
Ginger Lindberg |
MOST WANTED
EDUCATION SEARCH
FEATURES
- Easy-to-use
- Safe, clean, limited or no advertising
- Can search/limit by grade or age
- Categorizes sites by school subjects,
topics covered
- Can select by type of materials (articles,
primary sources, video, interactive, etc)
- Displays related Web sites on the same topic
- Content editorially reviewed
- Natural language search
- Spell-check
- Offers suggested search strategies
- Correlates results to state standards
(currently only available to subscription search engines such as
NetTrekker and
WebFeet)
What other criteria do you find important
for an educational search engine? Post comments to my
K12 Search blog with some of your wish list items. |
