Research for kids
Expand your research skills with these helpful online resources
Research Skills Resource Chart created by Ms. Vicki Martinez
| Ask Jeeves for Kids |  | When you type in a word, you are taken to many different links on a particular topic. This is also great for teachers looking for sites for kids to use. |
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| Ben's Guide to Government |  | This site is geared for K-12. Click on the kite for the grades of your choice for information on government that is age appropriate. |
| Copyright Kids |  | Learn about copyrights. Learn how to copyright your own information. Just click on the words. |
| Create a Graph |  | Use this tool to create all kinds of graphs online. You can then print out the graph. It's easy to use. Be sure to know the difference between the x axis and the y axis. x is short. It's the horizontal axis. Y is tall, it's the vertical axis. |
| Create a Graph Classic |  | Use this site if you are not sure which kind of graph to choose, or if you have not used create a graph in before, then this site is for you. There is a create a graph tutorial here. |
| Cybrarian |  | This site was created by librarians for kids in Grades 3-8. It contains many links from art to social studies. |
| Encyclopedia.com |  | This site does work as an encyclopedia, but does contain google ads at the top of each search. |
| Encyclopedia of Louisiana |  | This site is an extensive list of information on Louisiana from authors to information on time periods in history to Regions and Media. |
| Fact Monster - Kids' Almanac |  | Fact Monster contains an almanac, an encyclopedia, a thesaurus, and a dictionary. The search section is ad free. |
| Growth of A Nation Animated Atlas |  | This atlas related to the growth of our nation. Click on the year and go to timelines of important events. There is also a great instructional video with the map. |
|  | General searches plus almanacs, biographies, dictionaries, encyclopaedia, spelling |
| K12 Educational videos |  | Educational Lessons, Videos, and Games for K-12 Kids |
| Kids Click Web Search for Kids Designed by Librarians |  | A good site for kids to surf for answers safely. |
| Safe Internet Searches |  | Kids can surf this site safely. The links were developed by librarians and include searches by subject, newspapers and magazines, special collections created by ipl2, For Kids, and For Teens. |
| K-12 Tech Resources | This is a data base of 2500 kid safe learning resources. | |
| State Symbols of the United States |  | This site gives information on a long list of symbols for each state in the United States. It also includes poetry from that state and more. |