Goals include an understanding of aerobic exercise, of individual and team competition, and of physical fitness. Students meet for PE four times a week for forty minutes each time. The focus is primarily political from the colonial period through post-Vietnam America with a unit on Indiana. History and culture of colonial New England is studied in the context of Tituba of Salem Village and the Civil War through Across Five Aprils. Geography in included in the expectation of knowledge of states and capitals and of geographical features important to American history.
Students also have the opportunity to learn the counties of Indiana.