I know a lot of kids now use Wikipedia, even though they should really be looking at all the footnotes for references. My kids are all grown, but I do use the CIA World Factbook quite a lot myself. Glad to see it included here! Another excellent resource you are sharing for kid safe and friendly search engine and again, so invitingly well done. Thanks very much for this list - you just saved me a great deal of time finding kid-friendly research sites for my 4th grade twins. I've bookmarked 'em all except the bibliography maker - I don't think they'll need that for a while yet, and by the time they do they'll probably be able to find it for themselves. Btw, great looking lens. Take a peek at my lens, Homeschooling 101: Guide to Free Curriculum and Other Resources. This information is perfect for my nephew who is doing a ton of studying right now.
I had no idea these sites even existed. I don't have kids, but I think this is a great idea and resource for parents who want to their children to surf the web safely. This is a very good resource. We often use the CIA fact book when we want to know about a country we are going to work in. I have to check out the others you have listed here. I would have LOVED using a bibliography tool like the one above - back in the day. Great lens, very helpful. Wow, what a great resource. Sure beats the days when we had to spend all of our time at the library. I'm in highschool and actually considering using a few of these! An abstract is a summary of the research paper. Summarizing is a skill 4th graders are just beginning to learn. Writing Fun by Jenny Eather has some good examples of writing at different grade levels. The summary is the last paragraph of each example.
The examples numbers are circled at the bottom of the page. I am looking for sample research paper abstracts that a 4th grader would understand. Something guide to better demonstrate what an abstract is. EdTecher: In response to lravidlearner, bibme is probably the best. But it doesn't cover the Harvard system, which is pretty much the only one used in the UK and most of Europe and Australia. I've found a very similar reference tool that covers this style. Here's another online resource for you, and btw it's also one that could help kids to develop a good reading habit. The MLA Citation Generator is very bare bones. You'll see a small box with an arrow at the top of the page. Click on the arrow to select the type of source - book, magazine, website, etc. Then you fill in the blanks for the requested information and submit. It comes back with a properly formatted citation that you can copy and paste into your bibliography. 6 on the second list). It provides more information, more formatting options and more options for saving your bibliography. You must register for free to use it. Has anyone found any other good citation generators? You have some very helpful sites here. I can't wait to tell my 6th grader about this. She has a report due in a couple of weeks and I thought I was going to have to do all the translating for her. You give me hope that she will be able to do her own research.