North Carolina Portal Resources

This is the Course User Guide for 2025-26.

This is the Curriculum Guide for 2025-26 with highlighted changes from the 2024-25 guide.

The full curriculum guide includes:

• Essential Questions
• Unpacked Content
• Key Terms
• Sample Instructional Activities
• Instructional Resources

This spreadsheet provides resources and ideas for each standard/indicator. Resources include websites, informational documents, videos, activity suggestions, and more. We encourage educators to add ideas!

These presentations provide a great starting point for teaching the content in each standard. We encourage educators to modify to fit your students needs. 

The Student Workbook is designed to help prepare students for the credential exam. It's full of pictures, diagrams, QR codes to videos and online resources, and more! 

These flashcard sets on Quizlet cover the key terms and other important concepts for each standard.

There are a set of sample questions for each standard. The questions are similar to those hat will be on the credential exam,, so this a great tool for students to prepare for the exam. The quiz is housed on Thinkinfic. Students will need to "Enroll for free," and once they have done this, they will have unlimited access to take the quiz. Each time they take a quiz for a standard, it will tell them their score and allow them to retake. It also tells the student if they answered each question correctly; if they answer it incorrectly, it tells the correct answer.

Final Exam Information

This document contains all the information pertinent to the final exam.

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