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. 

A website resource that provides facts and data that documents the forced removal of enslaved persons from Africa and their arrival to North Carolina.

In this lesson, students will independently examine primary source documents and secondary sources to answer questions about the Culpepper's Rebellion. Students will understand who was involved in Culpepper's Rebellion, what the rebellion meant to the colonial people, and why there was a rebellion.

In this lesson, the class will examine primary source documents and secondary sources to answer questions about the Tuscarora War. Students will understand who was involved, what the war meant to the colonial people, and why there was a war.

Fort Dobbs has created a series of short videos designed to teach students about the settlement of the Northwest Carolina backcountry, the lives of the Native Americans living in and near the region of Fort Dobbs, the life of a North Carolina Provincial Soldier, and North Carolina's role during the French and Indian War. The videos are designed for teachers to use them separately to fit into their own lessons or can be grouped together by theme.

Students can learn about Nathaniel Hart. Mr. Hart was an explorer who mapped out and negotiated with the Cherokee in the Western part of North Carolina.

Students and teachers can learn about the Haudenosaunee Alliance of various Native American groups including the Mohak from North Carolina.

In this short video, students will learn the various ways people have gathered food across thousands of years.

Students will examine the three historical portraits Andrew Jackson, William Pitt, and Portrait of a Boy for symbolism and its relationship to the concept of meaning. After learning more about Andrew Jackson’s involvement in the Cherokee Indians’ Trail of Tears in North Carolina, students will research another historical figure important during that movement and produce a historical portrait, similar to the examples shown, and a cinquain poem.

In this article and activity, students will understand and be able to summarize the cause of and results from the Trail of Tears.

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

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

This short video wraps up the 3-part Spencer Mountain series, explaining the local history around the mountain.