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 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.
UNIT 1: Children’s Letters to President Carter
Grades: 2nd, 3rd, 4th
GSE: Information Processing Skill #6; SS2CG2, SS2CG3
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Letter writing, Current events & their impact on the presidency, Energy and the environment.
14 Pages | 623 kb | UNIT 1
UNIT 2: Life in Plains, GA
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SS2H1a, SS2H2b, SS2G2, SS2CG2 (a&b), SS3H2a, SSCG8, SS3H2b, SS3G2, SSWG1, SS8H10, SS5H2c, SS5H8 (b&d), SS8H6c, SS8H11, SSUSH22, SS8H24a, SS5H3b, SS5H4b, SS5G2b, SS8H12b, SS8H8
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Compare & contrast historical exercises, Onsite interactive multimedia activity, Online research activities, Peanut farming research exercise, G. W. Carver research activity, Segregation, GA & the Civil Rights movement, Impact of the Great Depression on GA, Motion picture analysis activity, Segregated classroom simulation, Social media simulation exercise
71 Pages | 4,029 kb | UNIT 2
UNIT 3: The Negro Motorist Green Book
Grades: 4th - 8th
GSE: SS2H1 (a&b), SS5H8b
Themes/Content: Geography, Segregation & Civil Rights, Online research activities
7 Pages | 395 kb | UNIT 3
UNIT 4: The Peanut Brigade (1976 Campaign)
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SS2CG2, SS2CG2a, SS4CG4b, SS6CG8, SSCG8, SS8H12B, SSKH3]
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Artifact Analysis, Mock campaigns, Online political research, Geography, Pre- and Post-visit activities
30 Pages | 1,880 kb | UNIT 4
UNIT 5: A Day In The Life
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SSWG4, SSWG7, SSWG8, SS2CG2 (a&b), SS2CG3, SS5H9a, SSCG12, SSCG13 (a&b), SSCG20, SS8H12 (a&b), SSUSH25; NCSS-Era 10 Standard 1, 1a.; SS5H9, SS8H12; Era 9 Standard 2, 2d; Language Arts-ELA8W1
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Civics, Expository writing activity, Compare & contrast research exercise, On-site museum interactive activity, Presidential decision making, Social media simulation activity
19 Pages | 1,720 kb | UNIT 5
UNIT 6: Carter Library Onsite Multimedia Interactives
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: GPS: SS2J1a, SS2CG3, SS6G1, SS8H12b
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Motion picture analysis, Multimedia extension activities, On-site museum interactive exercises
24 Pages | 1,842 kb | UNIT 6
UNIT 7: A Day In the Life of the President
Grades: 2nd, 3rd, 5th - 12th
GSE: GPS: SSKG1, SSKG2, SS2H1a, SS2G2, SS2G2, SS3CG1b, SS3CG1c, SS5H9, SS5G2, SS8h11C, SS8H12B, SS8G1a, SSWG2, SSWG7, SSUSH25c, SSWH20, SSWH21
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Presidential decision making, Roles & duties of the president, Collaborative executive crisis simulation, Pre-visit and On-site interactive activities, Post-visit writing activity
33 Pages | 1,500 kb | UNIT 7
UNIT 8: Political Peanuts - Cartoons Inspired by President Carter
Grades: 4th - 12th
GSE: Information Processing Skill(s) #6, #8; NCSS-SSWH19
Themes/Content: Cartoon analysis, Energy & environment, Symbolism, Current events exercises, Iran hostage crisis, Vocabulary builder activity, Camp David, Online extension activities
33 Pages | 1,697 kb | UNIT 8
UNIT 9: The Panama Canal
Grades: 5th - 12th
GSE: GPS: SS5H3c, SS6CG1, SSCG3, SSCG12, SSCG20, SS8H12b, SSWG7, SSUSH14c; Science - S6Ed, S6E3, S7L4 (c&e)S
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, U. S. / Latin-American relations, Onsite information hunts, Collaborative watershed stakeholder game, Political cartoon analysis, Online extended research activities
60 Pages | 3,601 kb | UNIT 9
UNIT 10: The Camp David Accords
Grades: 4th - 12th
GSE: SS7H2, SS7G8, SS5H9, SSCG20, SSCG12, SSUSH25c, SSWH19b
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Motion picture analysis activity, Political cartooning exercise, Writing activity, Mid-east research, Online post-visit research
33 Pages | 2,092 kb | UNIT 10
UNIT 11: Two White Houses - The Iran Hostage Crisis
Grades: 7th - 12th
GSE: SS7G5, SS7G8, SS7CG5, SSUSH25c, SSWH20a
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Middle-East, U. S. foreign policy issues
13 Pages | 826 kb | UNIT 11
UNIT 12: A New Deal in Georgia
Grades: 4th - 12th
GSE: SS5H5, SS8E3, SS8E4, SS8E5, SSWG8
Themes/Content: Geography, Poster analysis activity, New Deal era research activity, Vocabulary builder, Collaborative discussion exercise, Expository writing activity, S.E.S. extension exercise, Online research activities
48 Pages | 962 kb | UNIT 12
UNIT 13: Our Documents
Grades: 4th - 12th
GSE: Information Processing Skill(s) #6, #8
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Media literacy, Importance of presidential libraries
6 Pages | 544 kb | UNIT 13
UNIT 14: Waging Peace - Election Monitoring
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SS2CG3, SS2H1a, SSCG20, SS6CG1, SS6CG2, SS7CG1, SS7CG2, SS7CG3, SS8CG2, SSCG6, SSKCG1, SS3CG1, SS4CG3, SS4CG4, SS5CG1a, SSCG3b
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Pre-visit activities, On-site interactive exhibit exercise, Carter Center election monitoring program, Online research activities, Mock election exercise, Political analysis, ELA exercise, Election observation simulation
43 Pages | 1,996 kb | UNIT 14
UNIT 15: Launching Liberty - Democracy in Liberia
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SS2H1, SS7CG1, SS7CG1, ELA7R1, ELAALRL1, ELA7R2
Themes/Content: Geography, Reading comprehension activity, Vocabulary builder exercise, Carter Center election monitoring program, Language arts / Poetry analysis activity, Motion picture analysis activity, On-site museum interactive activity
37 Pages | 1,295 kb | UNIT 15
UNIT 16: The Carter Center - Fighting Disease
Grades: 6th - 12th
GSE: SS6E3, SS6G3, SS7E3, SS7G2, SSWG2, SSWG4, SSWG7
Themes/Content: Document Analysis, Geography, Health & disease issues, Distribution of natural resources, Environmentalism
12 Pages | 764 kb | UNIT 16
UNIT 17: Fighting Tropical Disease - Cleanliness Counts
Grades: 4th - 8th
GSE: Geography-SSWG1; Health-HEK1b, HE1.1b, HE2.1b
Themes/Content: Geography, Carter Center disease eradication program, Hygiene & sanitation game
86 Pages | 19,785 kb | UNIT 17
UNIT 18: Fighting Tropical Disease - What Ails You?
Grades: 5th - 12th
GSE: Geography-SSWG1 (a-c), SSWG3, SSWG4 (a-d), SSWG4, SSWG5 (a-c), SSWG7 (b-d); Science-S5L4, S7L4; Epidemiology-SEPI1 (c&d), SEPI2
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Geography, Carter Center health programs, Collaborative disease simulation game, Online extended research activity
34 Pages | 3,388 kb | UNIT 18
UNIT 19: Waging Peace - The Nobel Peace Prize
Grades: 2nd - 12th
GSE: SS2CG3, SS2H1a, SS2H1b, SSUSH25c
Themes/Content: Document analysis, Simulation game, Discussion/collaboration/research activity, Online extension activities, Pre- and Post-visit activities
25 Pages | 1,868 kb | UNIT 19