Engines

• Google
• Yahoo
• Yahooligans
• Ask Jeeves
• Altavista
• Ask Jeeves for Kids
• Hotbot
• Factmonster - great site for basic information on a variety of topics; appropriate for elementary
• BrainBoost - "...an interesting meta- engine that presents the er with results in full sentences culled from what it determines to be relevant Web pages to answer the query and also allows you to "snap" open the retrieved page from within the results; I suggest you try this on your own before using with students." -Kathy Schrock