Pioneer+Library+Sources

Culture Grams - http://online.culturegrams.com/index.php This site contains various information about cultures around the world. The quality of information is pretty good, although I'm not sure it's presented in a way that would interest kids. The information appears to be current. I would use this site for social studies, or as an introduction to the students about the various cultures they might come across in literature, to help them understand the different perspectives. I would probably need to give very specific instructions about this website because it's so broad and huge that they might become overwhelmed navigating it on their own.

Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/index.html This website offers information on literally every topic I can think of. The quality of the information appears to be good, but I can't seem to find any sources. This website is so huge and vast that I myself am overwhelmed just looking at all the various links and topics of information. It was pretty easy to find information, but if I was to just browse, I feel like I would get lost in all of it. I feel like I could visit this site for ANY type of information I needed to teach a lesson. I would definitely need to give my students specific information and steps on how to get to the information I wanted them to learn if I were to give my students access to this website.

ThinkQuest - http://www.thinkquest.org/en/projects/ This website was kind of confusing for me to use. It seems to contain activities, some sort of contest, and then a bunch of other websites to visit. The quality is ok. I'm not sure of any quality because there seems to be all sources rather than actual information. I'm not sure how current the information is either. I don't think I would allow my students access to this website per se, but I might use it for more places for information.