This is avery good source for elementary students to use.

Overview SweetSearch is a search engine of teacher-reviewed, scholarly resources, and in my humble opinion beats Google Scholar hands down! Why better than Google Search? For one thing, there are no ads. Over 35,000 sites have been vetted by teachers and librarians, and ranked based upon their determination of reliability. So, Library of Congress is going to be high on most search results. As a history teacher I particularly enjoy the fact that the search engine finds primary source documents much more easily than other search engines. Concerns Nothing beats a good database search for crunchy, academic resources, but SweetSearch does go a long way to addressing the issue of Googling a research subject. Sample Uses Any student research short of the college-level will benefit from this search engine. Commitment and Learning Curve Zero. If you can Google-search, then you can SweetSearch. Best for ES MS or HS? MS, HS Cost: Free! Website Link: http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Accurate research material. A site where you know students will find the information they are looking for to benefit their research. You know that it will be quality information.

Sweet Search should be the first "go-to" for research on the internet. For younger kids, the sites are vetted, the results and fewer (but still plentiful) and it is as easy to use as Google. For older students and adults, critical thinking skills get strengthened as you compare your results with another search engine like Google or Bing. Sweet Search also provides terrific colored highlighting of your search terms in the results and gives a much longer snapshot of your results in the hit list (Google's hit list could be much improved with this feature!)