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Recently updated Ask Jeeves for Kids provides students, parents and teachers with a fun and educational online resource.

“Seasonal tours” contains the most popular questions recently asked by children.

“Homework Assistant,” a feature that includes live help for students, added knowledge database tools such as a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, world atlas and math help.

“Net-mom picks” includes suggestions from “Net-mom” Jean Armour Polly, author of “The Internet Kids Family Yellow Pages.”

“Teacher Links” provides information for teachers to add to their lessons.

There are also message boards where students may share information.

AJ Kids was developed by researchers based on actual school curricula.

One number reported by Class Clicks, an online measurement company that focuses on children and teens, is that schoolchildren spent more than 10 million hours online last November.

Perhaps that explains the electrical shortages some areas experienced a few months ago.