This North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Live Binder site provides lesson plans and activities to assist students in learning about and understanding the N.C. State Constitution and government.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 4th grade Social Studies content. Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink 4th Grade Social Studies course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This resource provides information on the three branches of government and contains two videos about the constitution.

This presentation teaches students about the branches of government at the state level and how they check and balance each other.

Students can learn about the court case Bayard v Singleton which took place just after the American Revolutionary War and before the Federal case of Marbury v Madison. This is one of the cases which was used to established judicial review at the state level.

This NC Pedia site provides a description of the three N.C. Constitutions. The countless struggles, successes, and failures experienced in the years between the American colonial period and the end of the twentieth century have been reflected in the development of North Carolina's constitution.

Students can learn about the changes which were made to the North Carolina Constitution in 1835.

Students can review the original Constitution of North Carolina which was created prior to the American Revolutionary War.

This presentation summarizes the key principles and revisions of the North Carolina Constitution.

Students can read about a famous North Carolina Supreme Court Case which dealt with the separation of powers at the state government level.

Coming from the office of the NC Secretary of State, this website provides "Official Explanation of Amendments" to the most recent NC Constitution of 1971.

This article explains that the constitutional revisions of 1835 resulted in great part from North Carolina’s acceptance of Jacksonian democracy, a political movement that emphasized participation of the common man in the political process. The democratic movement gained momentum after Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was elected to the presidency in 1828. There had been years of protest against the Constitution of 1776 with its disproportionate representation of eastern counties, extensive property requirements for voting and office holding, and for its omission of an amendment and an impeachment process.

This resource is an updated, interactive version of the current NC Constitution from the North Carolina General Assembly website.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade Social Studies.