Resources for Teachers

General Information: All the details about scheduling, confirmations, parking, chaperones, lunch, and other important subjects.

School Tours and Programs: The Museum's school programs utilize a conversational approach and encourage students to use their analytical and deductive reasoning skills to explore the life and actions of a President within the context of the 20th century presidency. Our school programs are designed to complement Georgia social studies curriculum standards and can be adapted to several grade levels.

For Teachers: Download our standards-correlated activities guide BEFORE your field trip for pre-visit lessons (UNIT 6: JCLAM Onsite Multimedia Interactives)

Tour Reservation Form: For a form you can send electronically or print out and mail to schedule tours at the Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library. To avoid delays in processing your request, please pay close attention to the program days and times, grade levels, and maximum class size.

NEW CURRICULUM: THE PRESIDENT'S TRAVELS

Jimmy Carter grew up on the red clay soil of a Georgia peanut farm and rose to the presidency of the United States. Since 1982, as the founder of The Carter Center, he has helped millions of people around the world fight disease and pursue human rights. Who has traveled farther in one lifetime?

The President's Travels, our new geography-based curriculum guide to the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum experience, uses the life and times of President Carter as a springboard to teach your students about the world. All lessons make use of facsimiles of primary sources from our holdings: documents, reports, maps, photographs, letters, diaries, posters, artifacts, and recordings created by those who participated in the events of the past.

19 Curriculum Units | Grades 2 - 12 | GPS-Correlated: US History - Civics - Geography - Energy & Environment - Human Rights - US Foreign Policy - Science & Health - Current Events - Middle-East - Segregation & Civil Rights - Character Education.

THE PRESIDENT'S TRAVELS:

Acknowledgments

The President's Travels curriculum units are the result of the expertise, creativity, and hard work of several talented and devoted Georgia educators. Our thanks and congratulations for a job-well-done goes out to Brian Brewer, Sarah Brown, Monique Liles, and Dumaka Moultrie. These four teachers helped us create GPS-correlated activities that will assist you in developing and refining your ability to teach geographic and historic literacy using primary sources and objects (teaching with documents and museums). Thank you as well to Jimmy Carter Presidential Library staff members Jay Hakes, Janet Harris, and Sylvia Naguib, for assisting me in editing the 647 pages that comprise The President's Travels.

And last, but certainly not least, we'd like to acknowledge the generous support of The Coca-Cola Foundation. Without a generous grant for education programming here at the Jimmy Carter Library from The Coca-Cola Foundation, we definitely wouldn't have been able to put together this content rich, cross-disciplinary curriculum.

Kahlil G. Chism
Education Specialist
JCLAM

Other Lesson Plans:

The Panama Canal Treaties
- How Treaties are Ratified

American Originals Documents
Carter Center Teacher Resource Center