Teacher Resources

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Search Engines
Dictionary Search
Online libraries

Search Engines

• google : The biggest, fastest, and most comprehensive search engine.



• Yahoo! : An excellent search service and the largest image database.



• Gahoo!Yoogle : Splits a browser screen in two and shows both Google and Yahoo search results.



• SuperKids : Designed to provide a directory of useful resources suitable for children.



• MSN Search : One of the fastest search engines. It also answers natural language questions.



• AltaVista : The first search engine to provide image, audio, video, and multilingual search capabilities.



• Lycos : Yet another search engine that provides access to information to the global community.



• Ask Jeeves : The original search engine that answers your natural language questions.



• Ask for Kids : Ask Jeeves specifically for Kids.



• jux2 : A meta search engine that overlaps Google, Yahoo, and AskJeeves results.



• Lexxe : An ask-a-question site that gives you answers to your natural language questions.



• Dogpile : A very popular meta search engine that blends results from many search engines onto one page.



• Scirus : A science search engine especially aimed toward academics.



• Librarians' Internet Index : Features high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians.


• Search Engines and Directories for Children and Education : This is a list of websites dedicated to resources for children and education. Includes
  • KidsClick!
  • Yahooligans
  • MSN Encarta
  • Cybersleuth Kids
  • SeaWorld/Busch Gardens ANIMALS
  • Berit's Best Sites for Children
  • OneKey - the kid safe search engine
  • PeachPod - a search engine for children
  • The Awesome Library for children
  • The National Geographic Society
  • Windows to the Universe
  • The Why? Files

Dictionary Search

Wikipedia - A free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, with changes showing up immediately. It has about 715,000 articles with 224 million words with more material being constantly edited and added.

Dictionary.com - Searches several dictionaries including Webster's to provide results.

All Free Dictionaries - Provides links to over 1000 free dictionaries online in more than 60 languages.

Wiktionary - A collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.

Word Central - This is a fun website for kids where they can look up words in the dictionary and also submit new words to be added to the dictionary.

Online libraries

The Library of Congress - It is the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.

lib-web-cats - A directory of libraries worldwide, the majority of the current listings being in North America.

Questia - An academic-level online library with 60,000 full-text books, 1,000,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles , and an entire reference set with a dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus. (subscription needed)

Boston Public Library

The New York Public Library