This excellent resource is also available through our AEA website http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/ under the “Resource and Research Tools”.
This searchers for websites that other teachers have recommended for being age appropriate and having good content.
This is a great place to have students start in their research. While this is good for more broad and common topics, it is not as good for more specific and unusual topics. This is especially useful as 
students want to “use the internet” but making sure that the first information that they find is useful, helpful, accurate, appropriate, and at their reading level. I also have pointed out to students that with Nettrekker, you get 1-10 hits with Google you get 1,000,000. There is quite a difference there.
You can search for a topic two ways. First you can type the subject in the search box. You can also do a tree search by clicking on one of the topics listed on the page. It will then bring up another page and help you narrow down your topic. When you get a list of websites on the right it will indicate the recommended grade level. It also
will list features that that website has. You can also toggle between the Middle School, Elementary, and HS level. Even if you log in as one, you can go to a higher or lower level. This is a great feature for special education students or TAG students. 
On the right there also is an additional features box which can also be helpful in providing additional resources, while these features may not be available or connected with every topic, the ones that are included, there is great information available.
This searchers for websites that other teachers have recommended for being age appropriate and having good content.
This is a great place to have students start in their research. While this is good for more broad and common topics, it is not as good for more specific and unusual topics. This is especially useful as 
students want to “use the internet” but making sure that the first information that they find is useful, helpful, accurate, appropriate, and at their reading level. I also have pointed out to students that with Nettrekker, you get 1-10 hits with Google you get 1,000,000. There is quite a difference there.You can search for a topic two ways. First you can type the subject in the search box. You can also do a tree search by clicking on one of the topics listed on the page. It will then bring up another page and help you narrow down your topic. When you get a list of websites on the right it will indicate the recommended grade level. It also
will list features that that website has. You can also toggle between the Middle School, Elementary, and HS level. Even if you log in as one, you can go to a higher or lower level. This is a great feature for special education students or TAG students. 
On the right there also is an additional features box which can also be helpful in providing additional resources, while these features may not be available or connected with every topic, the ones that are included, there is great information available.
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