NC General Curriculum for Elementary Educator License Help Site: History and Social Science

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  2. Indigenous Peoples Before the Arrival of Europeans
  3. European Exploration
  4. Colonization
  5. The Revolutionary War
  6. Key Developments in the Formation of the National Government (including Founding Documents)
    1. Founding Documents
    2. Types of U.S. Government
      1. Three Branches of Government
        1. Legislative Branch (Federal, State)
        2. Judicial Branch (Federal, State)
        3. Executive Branch (Federal, State)
    3. Responsibilities of U.S. Citizenship
  7. Settlement of the West and Overseas Expansion
  8. The Civil War and Reconstruction
  9. The Industrial Revolution
  10. The Progressive Era, Depression, and the New Deal
  11. Emergence of U.S. as a world power
  12. Civil Rights
  13. U.S. world leadership (collapse of Soviet Union to the present)
  14. World History (Major Developments and Key People)
  15. Geography
  16. Economics (Basic Terms and Issues)
  17. Interactive Sites (Survey Sites that Cover Multiple Time Periods)

Judicial Branch (Federal, State)

GENERAL CURRICULUM TEST OBJECTIVE : 0007  Understand the founding documents and governmental systems of the United States; the principles, ideals, rights, and responsiblities of U.S. Citizenship

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the three branches of the U.S. government and analyze their roles and functions.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of how laws are enacted and enforced.

The Judicial branch interprets the constitionality of laws. At the federal level, the Supreme Court has 9 justices or judges who are appointed for life by the President. The Judicial branch also contains federal district courts. If anyone believes that a decision made by a lower court is unconstitutional, they can ask the Supreme Court to hear the case. The Supreme Court has the power to rule that a law passed by the legislature or an act of the executive branch is illegal and unconstitutional.

There is a judicial branch at the state level also that includes a State Supreme Court and state lower courts.

Resources:

https://www.icivics.org/curriculum/judicial-branch

https://youtu.be/IkBkc2Fxe3I
Author: Janet Painter
Last modified: 10/3/2016 10:56 AM (EDT)