Research
The sites below are kid-friendly and provide a safer search than general searches on the internet.
With this being said, these sites are not 100% foolproof, so always search with care!
Safe Search Engines for Research & Images
More Safe Sites for Images
More Safe Search Engines for Kids and Education
These services search the entire Internet, but filter the results specifically for student interest and safety.
Kidtopia – Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved websites.
SafeSearchKids – Safe Search for Kids is a powerful, safe search tool that filters search results to enhance your students’ safe search experience. Powered by Google.
SweetSearch – SweetSearch is a search engine for students. It searches only credible websites approved by internet research experts.
KidRex – Fun and safe search for kids, by kids.
Famhoo – Kid and family friendly search engine, filtered search results that remove adult content. Great for all ages.
KidzSearch – Family-friendly safe search engine for children.
Primary School Safe Search – Primary School Safe Search is a great place to start internet sessions for children and teachers. The internet searches are filtered.
FactMonster – Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents.
Kiddle – Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids powered by Google, offering safe kids web, image, and video search.
GoogleScholar – Google Scholar is a search engine designed to search scholarly journals, Supreme Court records, and patent records. In some cases the results will link to abstracts of books and articles that you will then have to obtain from a library or book retailer. In other cases results will link to fully viewable documents. This is mainly for older students doing research.
refseek – Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.
WolframAlpha – WolframAlpha is a computational search engine. If students have any questions involving numbers, Wolfram Alpha is the place to go. Wolfram Alpha can be used for other searches, but it’s not nearly as useful for general inquiries as it is for computational questions.
Worldbookonline.com UserID: alpinedistrict Password: student
More SAFE IMAGE SITES
These sites have collections of images that are designed for use in education or by kids. Consequently they have far less variety but a much higher likelihood of safety.
Pics4learning - collection of pictures for education
National Geographic Kids – Part of the site is a collection of images that have been loaded by users who have submitted for use.