Subject directories designed specifically for children and educators:
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What you’ll find below are subject directories that act like search engines but are specifically made for children and educators in that they have little to no commercial advertisements and are high on quality.  Because you never know what you’re going to get or where you’re going to end up when you use a commercial search engine, subject directories provide an alternative to people interested in quality, pre-evaluated websites chosen by human editors (often librarians!).

KidsClick!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
KidsClick! is an encyclopedic collection of websites maintained by a group of librarians from the Ramapo Catskill Library System to help young users find valuable and age appropriate web sites. It is intended to guide users to good sites; not block them from "bad" sites.  Over 600 subjects are represented with an advanced search tool that enables you to search by reading level and/or picture content.  (JF)

Edsitement
http://www.edsitement.neh.gov
A website created by the National Endowment for the Humanities that hand-picks “best of humanities” websites for the discerning information seeker.  While vast in resources, it is easy to search by subject area (Art & Culture; Literature & Language Arts; Foreign Language; and History & Social Studies), subject subcategories, and/or grade level. (JF)

KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Produced by the University of Michigan School of Information, this site is a more folksy version of KidsClick! (although not nearly as expansive) with some special features worth checking out such as “Culture Quest,” “Science Fair Resource Guide,” and “Say Hello.”

Ask Jeeves for Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/
“Ask Jeeves for Kids” allows you to ask a question in plain English and, after interacting with you to confirm the question, “Ask Jeeves for Kids” takes you to one and only one web site that has been chosen to answer your question.  Along with it’s query-based search tool, “Ask Jeeves for Kids” includes other “Study Tools” such as Merriam-Webster’s “Word Central’s Student Dictionary,” Roget’s Thesaurus, and a “Fact Monster” Almanac.