Teacher challenges students at home to create Jimmy Carter rap

With students at home amid the coronavirus outbreak, parents and teachers are finding creative ways to help kids keep learning.

In a video posted on Twitter Thursday, one metro Atlanta teacher shared a rap she wrote to Georgia’s own, former President Jimmy Carter. She then challenged her students to do the same.

Melanie Kellam, a teacher at McDonough Middle School, shared a snippet of the rap she had written.

"Today, I gave a little Remote Arts Integration to @MMS_HCS learners, by rapping about Jimmy Carter. Here's a snippet. Now the kids are creating their own. Model what you want to see!" she wrote in the tweet.

In her rap, Kellam calls out Carter’s upbringing in Plains and time spent in the Navy.

It quickly drew the attention from some big-name accounts on Twitter, including the Jimmy Carter Library.

"Wow! We want to hear the whole thing!" the library wrote in a tweet.

The official account for the National Archives also responded to Kellam.

“Who says learning about history is boring? This made us smile today,” the account wrote.