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Make use of these search engines and directories that offer the best of the web.

1. Google is know for it useful web tools, and other education applications.
   
2. Clusty: With this clustering search engine, you’ll be able to search on Wikipedia, blogs, and more at one time.
3. BUBL: Find selected Internet resources in specific academic subject areas through BUBL.
4. Turbo10: This search engine looks on more than 800 deep web search engines at once, so you’ll be able to save time and find great information you can’t find anywhere else.
5. Complete Planet: On Complete Planet, you can find more than 70,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines.
6. Ask for Kids: This search engine was created with kids in mind, offering tutoring and reference help as well as search.
7. Librarians’ Internet Index: Find websites you and your students can trust in this directory compiled by librarians.
8. CyberSleuth Kids: Get searches, homework help, and more from this website.
9. Geniusfind: Geniusfind offers a directory to some of the best resources you can find on the web.
10. Internet Archive: Check out the Internet Archive to get access to websites and pages that have fallen off the web.
11. KidsClick!: Visit this website for a kid-friendly search engine.
12. Digital Librarian: This site offers a librarian’s guidance for the best resources online.
13. Infomine: Infomine is full of scholarly Internet resource collections that you and your students can use.
14. ProTeacher Directory: ProTeacher has teaching ideas, resources, blogs, and more for elementary school teachers.

Research & Reference

Make use of these tools to give your students the research power they need.

1. Infoplease: Infoplease combines an encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, and a lot more, all in one place.
2. HowStuffWorks: Your students can find easy to understand information about how anything and everything work on this site.
3. MetaGlossary: MetaGlossary defines more than 2 million terms, phrases, and acronyms.
4. Repositories of Primary Sources: This index is a wonderful place to find strong sources for manuscripts, archives, historical photographs, and more.
5. Refdesk: Find kid-friendly research resources through Refdesk.
6. eHow: eHow explains in simple language how you can do just about anything.
7. Google books-  How to use Google books for educators slide show, great resource for free online books.  How to use Google books additional guild.
   

      Hint: Searching for a topic in Google Books, filtering results to show only "free Google eBooks," putting the titles on a Google Bookshelf, then sharing the link to the shelf you created.

1. Google eBooks-  this is different from Google books.  For a  helpful user guild,  video for introducing Google eBooks. second resources
   
2. Many Books is a service that has indexed more than 29,000 free ebooks that are available in a variety of formats for a variety of devices. Additional information

Online Libraries

Make use of these online libraries to enjoy incredible collections that you can share with your students.

1. Smithsonian’s Galaxy of Knowledge: The Smithsonian has a digital library, arts, science, lectures, and more.
2. Exploratorium Digital Library: Exploratorium offers a variety of collections in digital media and digitized museum materials for elementary school students and beyond.
3. SONIC: The Library of Congress’s Sound Online Inventory and Catalog houses about 2.5 million audio recordings, including unpublished recordings.
4. The Internet Public Library: Founded by a class of students at the University of Michigan, the Internet Public Library is a full-service library online.
5. Stately Knowledge: This kid section of the Internet Public Library offers basic facts about the United States, the world, health, music, and much more.

Activities

Create fun and educational activities for your class with these resources.

1. Electronic Fieldtrips: Take field trips online with this site.
2. Exploratorium Hands-on Activities: Here you’ll find activities including sport science, a journey to Mars, and cow’s eye dissection.
3. GPS Activities & Lesson Plans: This resource will show you how to make GPS and geocaching an important part of your curriculum.