Love this "Thing"

Librarians’ Internet Index: Here you’ll be connected to quality, authoritative sites. Search by keyword or narrow down your search by browsing categories like business, government, media, health, computers, or the arts and humanities.

http://www.lii.org/

LOVE IT!

As one of those "computer lab obsessed" Humanities teachers, I am always trying to find the next best thing for students to enhance their searching. This web site was awesome for history day research! Students are forever asking me if a certain web site is valid and we spend so much time trying to decipher one site that we miss out on so many more. This web site takes all that away. The only thing I would add is something like what nettrekker has. The readability piece is also so important for the students.

In spite of that, almost all of the students had success finding helpful primary sources on this site. They could actually break things down from History to US History to an exact topic. And it was fast! Which as we all know, 14 year olds appreciate that quick fix!