I ran across this website and it looks promising. It is a search engine powered by google, so it has the full force of the web behind it, however it appears to be more user friendly and topic oriented. This search engine uses a puzzle piece feature which allows you to fit the pieces of your topic together in order to find information relevant to your topic of choice. And an even better function is that a teacher can monitor the students searches with a glance because the search criteria is displayed much larger on the computer screen, so a teacher can quickly glance at student's progress.
However, as with all search engine, this one is not exactly perfect or a guarantee. It simply narrows the results by allowing one to pick criteria such as "or, not, and" to attempt to narrow the field. Each time I tried this I never got within a reasonable list of results.
This is a great resource for younger children and a great way to teach them how to better search for information on the Internet.
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