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Kid Safe Search Engine

Fifteen years ago, when I was teaching computers to grades K-5, yahooligans was the popular, safe search engine that I used with my students.  This year, I tried to use yahooligans with my kids and quickly got frustrated because the search didn't bring up any results.  Bah.    I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but I just typed in "kid safe search engine" on google and came up with a result.   Google has developed a safe search engine filtering technology that is used by several other sites.  I found one that is the primary site: http://www.safesearchkids.com/ If you scroll down, there is an explanation of what is filtered and what isn't. Then, I found another one called KidRex.  It uses the safe search technology and then goes beyond it to add their own list as well.   http://www.kidrex.org/ I googled for "consumption illness" while writing questions for Autumn's Carry On, Mr. Bowditch unit.  I came up with several res...