The photo-production of nucleon resonances is calculated based on a chiral constituent quark model including both relativistic corrections H rel and twobody exchange currents, and it is shown that these effects play an important role. We also calculate the first moment of the nucleon spin structure function g 1 x, Q 2 in the resonance region, and obtain a sign-changing point around Q 2 ∼ 0.27 GeV 2 for the proton.