The Best Search Engines for Students & Teachers

Awesome Library organizes thousands carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.

A comprehensive educational search engine, directory and homework helper for the K-12 student. Search from thousands of carefully selected subject specific internet sites. It is a virtual library and reference tool that provides easy access to safe sites.

Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) allows you to quickly and easily search for educational resources, such as lesson plans and curriculum units. GEM draws from some of the country's best museums, universities, and government programs, including NASA, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the National Science Foundation, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
GEM is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA).

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

The search engine for teachers. Source for lesson plans & worksheets reviewed and rated by teachers.

The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web. Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!

A page of search input boxes from web search engines that have compiled and/or screened sites for content appropriate to children. This page is maintained by librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System.

Resources for K-8 students and teachers. Includes an all-in-one search page and an illustrated computer dictionary.