SAFE SEARCH ENGINES FOR STUDENTS  

• World Book Online - Designed to help teachers and students to search answers more quickly. World Book Online features thousands of articles, maps, pictures, sounds, and video that are delivered to you over the web.
  
  
• Grolier Online - A database collection and online research portal for teachers and students. With Grolier online, you will be able to search encyclopedia articles, new feature stories, magazines, and websites (prescreened and age-appropriate). Plus, it will provide you with featured showcases, teacher resources and student activities.
  
  
• IPL for Kids  - IPL2 merged both collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarian's Internet Index (LII) websites to provide you with information in reading, science, math, sports, health, technology, art & music, and fun educational stuff.
  
  
• The World Factbook - Part of the CIA.gov website, it provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, and military for 267 world entities.  It also includes maps of major world regions, flags of the world and many more.
  
  
• Bing in the Classroom- Another safe search engine for students, Bing in the Classroom is ad-free and offers lesson plans by subject, age and 21st century literacy skills.

 INTERNET SAFETY RESOURCES

http://www.netsmartz.org/NetSmartzKids/BeSaferOnline 

SUMMER SAFETY TIPS

• McGruff Summer Safety - Many children will stay home alone and play unsupervised in the neighborhood. If children know a few tips, chances are they will have a fun and safe summer.