This lesson explores the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures through the lens of "School Searches." Debates over the scope of unreasonable searches and seizures sparked the American Revolution as we'll learn in a moment.• The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has provided some degree of protection for students in the context of searches and seizures. The 4th amendment definitely applies on school grounds, so long as they are actuay within the United States. Students in US public schools have the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. Give out the page with the text of the Fourth Amendment at the start of the class, and give out the other supplemental handouts as you go along. The 4th amendment protects students who are in school but at a lower standard than adults out of school. Fourth Amendment does protect you in school, but at a much lower threshold than would be the case for adults in the "real world. This Fourth Amendment activity raises the same question as in the landmark Supreme Court case New Jersey v. T.L.O.: Can a school search a student's backpack?