The following search engines will provide you with the best results and resources.

http://www.ajkids.com/

Ask Jeeves is a great search engine that provides an educational resource for children of all ages. It provides only "G-rated" webpages so parents can be assured that the information their children are looking at is appropriate. While it is a site for educational purposes and research for school projects there are also links for fun games and activities.

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

Yahooligans is a kid-friendly version of yahoo.com and provides an environment that children can flourish and find information on whatever topic they are searching for. Some of the links include games, animals, music, and education.

http://www.infotiger.com/

Info Tiger is a general search engine that gives you topics to choose from as well as a place to search general information on a topic of your choosing. For each search they give you a listing of featured links that you can choose from in addition to general links on the specific topic.

http://www.altavista.com/

AltaVista is a general search engine that provides searches for webpages, images, audio, video, and news. There is also a directory with selected categories the include arts, home, kids and teens to name a few.

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Awesome Library provides thousands of resources for topics in education. There are categories and links especially for teacher, parents, students, and librarians.

http://www.educating.net/

Educating.net is an educational search engine with links to distance education, homeschooling, grades kindergarten through grade 12, college and university, and fun ways to learn. They give you the option to search the entire website or to search only under specific topics.

http://www.37.com/

37.com provides a place to place one search but get resources from up to 37 different search engines including Google, Altavista, Lycos, and many more. This site gives you the opportunity to search specific topics that include finance, news, health, and toys and other links to different areas that might be of interest.

http://www.dogpile.com/

Dogpile gives you quality search results on any given topic. It gives you so much information that it also provides a side bar to refine your search so that it will be easier for you to find the information that you are looking for.

http://www.metacrawler.com/

Metacrawler whose motto is "search the search engines" does exactly that by bringing back results from other popular search engines. It also provides the yellow pages and the white pages to search from and gives you some of the favorite topics that have been searched recently.

http://www.metagopher.com/

Metagopher whose motto is "search the web fast" will do exactly that by providing you with search results from other popular search engines. After searching it provides you with the results broken down by the sites that the information was retrieved from.