Tumblebooks
Click below for Tumblebooks! This site is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Math Stories, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), Videos (from National Geographics), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and students. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which have been licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
This is a great site for reading books and doing activities!
Search Engines
The websites included in Kiddle search are recommended by educators,
librarians and parents from across the globe as well as websites our own
editors have used in schools or for homework within the K-12 age range.
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This site, run in conjunction with Google, goes beyond the Google SafeSearch to provide kid-friendly results suitable for school-age kids.
Kidtopia.info, is a site created by school librarians for elementary school students and their teachers. It is a directory and search engine including only websites recommended by teachers, librarians, and other education folks.
A note about GOOGLE
This is not a kids' search engine, but it is the largest search engine at this time. It can be configured to search with different levels of filtering to provide "Safe" searching for kids.
Click here for a link to the ECSD Internet Use Agreement and Website Guidelines.