NARA Overwhelming At First Look

Could it be there’s a point of too much information? Do you consider 23 links from the first column of a page too much? How about a column with 11 links and a drop down box that offered 25 more links? This is just too much information for me. It was truly overwhelming and quite honestly became immediately intimidating. I did find a class I am going to check into that teaches how to best use NARA, how to research and how to organize information.
In the Archives.gov column I spotted the genealogy and family link. I have been trying to track my great-grandparents arrival at Ellis Island so I clicked on the link. Long story short, I ended up on the Ellis Island website, to which I am already a member. No great insight for me with the genealogy link.
For my vision of working with at-risk students through remediation and computer based curriculum, I don’t think the Archives is something I would request they use. I would use it to supplement textbook curriculum with picture and video links to break up the boredom the can come from sitting at a computer for an hour or more.
The site I do like is the Library of Congress. It offers more items that I believe students would enjoy and it’s very heavy into teacher education.