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Ever send your students off to search for pictures of people or time periods and worry about what they might find?  Every time I allow my kids to search for images, I worry about what might pop up because they spelled something incorrectly or used just the right words to find something completely inappropriate.  One solution to this problem might be Google LIFE Photo Archive.  This photo archive is hosted by Google but includes thousands of amazing pictures from LIFE.  The images are sorted by events, famous people, cultures, time periods, and other different ways that make perusing the images interesting and easy.

I think this archive is especially useful for history projects since the way the pictures are archived lends itself nicely to that (there is a huge archive of Civil War photos that would have been super handy when I was working on my animoto).  There are a wealth of images though, so students would easily be able to create digital stories, presentations, or other projects with many quality images.

This is a great resource for safe image searching for kids.  Google also mentions that you can amend any Google image search by typing "computer source:life" after the search. The computer will then only retrieve images from the LIFE database.