Kids Resources

Highlights

***Here are some recommended search engines for children. These Kid-specific search engines provide a safe environment for student surfing. One limitation, however: Because these search engines are designed to locate Web sites in areas in which children typically search, searches for some Church-related terms won’t turn up any usable results.

Yahoo for Kids

This Web guide for kids from Yahoo! features a kid-safe search engine and hundreds of links to preselected Web sites that have been grouped by topic for easy reference. There are also online games, a news service designed specifically for youngsters, and a fact-filled "Kids’ Almanac." An excellent parents’ guide offers tips on safe surfing with your family; a truly terrific teachers’ guide offers a quick course in Internet literacy, tips on how to use Web resources in the classroom, sample lesson plans, and an engaging monthly newsletter brimming over with exciting ideas and links, links, and more links. ***See Above

Ask Jeeves for Kids

Ask Jeeves for Kids™ is one of the fastest and easiest way for children to find answers to questions online. The site allows you to ask a question in plain English ("Who was Thomas More?") and then, after interacting with you to confirm or refine the question, takes you to a Web site that answers it. ***See Above

The Liturgical Year Interactive Calendar

Just as a typical calendar has four seasons, twelve months, fifty-two weeks, and 365 days that include holidays, solemn days, commemorative days, and days that are just "average," the Liturgical Year Calendar of the Church uses similar terms and measurements.