Sarah Klippel's List: Search Engines

Kid friendly sites in a kid friendly web dirctory. \nHandy p-6 research tool.

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Excellent for biographical research.\nThe most comprehensive people search on the web. Pipl finds high-quality results in pages that cannot be found on regular search engines. Free People Search.

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Find synonyms, create word maps and word tools. Excellent for all all classes.

www.visuwords.com/ - Preview

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Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways. \n\nWith a visual presentation of ideas, and links across the top of the page to help narrow down the search, students are able to learn about the impact of key words in searching immediately and visually.\n

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10x10 displays 100 images of breaking news, updated every hour from; BBC World News, Reuters and the New York Times. Clicking on an image gives you a link to the news story.\nYou can go back in time to any date and hour after 2004 to see what was happening then.

www.tenbyten.org/index.html - Preview

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A simple search engine that is easy to read the results and safe search is automatically turned on!\n

www.kidrex.org - Preview

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Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images.\nA useful combination of types of information in this search engine. The definition is offered with a range of thumbnails of the search term from Flickr (+Google +Yahoo)\nA simple way to support literacy for different children in the class.\nEach new search term loads on top of the previous. In this way you can see a history of searches - useful for language activities in the classroom

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A fancy search engine presented in cube formation.

www.search-cube.com - Preview

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Search Engine

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diigo search google engine searchengine australia on 2009-10-12 and saved by 297 people

Could be useful as a stimulus for writing. 
1. Create a story, mood, setting etc through sounds from soungle etc 
2. Put the sounds into a medium such as PPT, podcasts, photo story, movies etc.  
3. Add writing or 'talk' story

www.soungle.com - Preview

audio sounds soundeffects sound podcasting search media searchengines searchengine education on 2009-10-12 and saved by 188 people