Newberry Academy
Electives
Give students opportunities to explore interests, strengthen practical skills, discover possible careers, and add meaningful courses beyond their core academic studies.
More Choices for a More Personal Education
Newberry Academy electives allow families to add courses that fit a student's abilities, interests, future plans, and learning goals. Students can explore career fields, technology, finance, engineering, communication, science, art, life skills, college preparation, languages, and more.
Health
Age-appropriate health education progresses from everyday healthy habits in the early grades to personal wellness, decision-making, safety, relationships, and lifelong health skills in middle and high school.
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A complete grade-by-grade Bible curriculum offered separately from Newberry Academy's secular academic subjects for families who choose to include Bible study.
Explore Bible CurriculumPenmanship
Handwriting Practice for Grades 1–2 and Cursive Writing for Grades 2–5 help students improve letter formation, control, spacing, legibility, and writing fluency.
Explore PenmanshipLife Skills & Fitness
These practical courses help students prepare for everyday responsibilities through study of home management, nutrition, relationships, personal responsibility, wellness, exercise, and independent living skills.
Home Economics
Students develop practical skills for everyday life, including home organization, basic food preparation, nutrition, budgeting, personal responsibility, and caring for a household.
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Students study nutrition and meal planning, food safety, home care, budgeting, career planning, hygiene, relationships, family life, and other skills needed for increasing independence.
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Students examine personal values, decision-making, relationships, responsibilities, culture, family life, and the ideas that influence how people approach everyday choices and adulthood.
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Students learn principles of movement, exercise, fitness planning, healthy activity, sports participation, safety, and habits that support an active lifestyle.
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Students explore cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, personal fitness goals, exercise planning, and lifelong physical wellness.
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Career electives introduce students to industries, workplace expectations, education and training pathways, job responsibilities, and the skills employers value. Students can explore possible futures before deciding what direction they want to pursue.
Marketing Careers Introduction
Students explore marketing careers while learning how businesses identify customers, research markets, promote products, communicate value, and connect products and services with consumers.
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Students examine careers in audio, video, broadcasting, filmmaking, editing, sound, media production, production equipment, and the technical and creative roles used in modern media.
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Students are introduced to architecture, construction trades, building design, project planning, workplace safety, tools, training requirements, and careers within the construction industry.
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Students explore how banks and financial institutions operate, including accounts, lending, customer service, financial transactions, workplace responsibilities, and career opportunities in banking.
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Students begin identifying strengths, interests, and career preferences while examining career fields, education requirements, workplace expectations, goal setting, and future planning.
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Students continue career exploration through deeper study of job skills, training choices, workplace preparation, personal goals, career planning, and specific occupational fields.
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Students prepare for employment through study of workplace communication, professional behavior, time management, job preparation, personal development, career growth, and workplace success.
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Students explore healthcare professions that support diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, patient care, and medical services while learning about training paths and workplace expectations.
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Students learn how products and materials move through supply chains while exploring transportation, inventory, warehousing, distribution, scheduling, planning, and logistics careers.
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Students investigate modern manufacturing, production systems, materials, quality control, workplace safety, technology, and the many careers involved in creating finished products.
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Students examine marketing research, consumer behavior, advertising, promotion, sales, branding, communication, and career opportunities within the marketing profession.
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Students explore construction trades, jobsite safety, tools, materials, project stages, building systems, training options, and career pathways in residential and commercial construction.
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Students explore service-based careers and learn how professionals meet customer needs through communication, problem-solving, service quality, workplace skills, and responsible business practices.
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Students investigate careers in teaching, education, training, and student support while learning about learning environments, professional responsibilities, communication, and preparation pathways.
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Students explore careers in government and public service, including public agencies, administration, policy implementation, community services, leadership, and the responsibilities of public employees.
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Students examine careers connected to national security, emergency preparedness, intelligence, public safety, defense, cybersecurity, and other fields that protect people and infrastructure.
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Students explore nursing roles, healthcare settings, patient care, professional responsibilities, education pathways, specialized nursing fields, and the skills needed in nursing careers.
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Students take a closer look at teaching and training professions, including instructional planning, communication, learning environments, student needs, professional conduct, and career preparation.
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Students explore transportation systems, distribution networks, warehousing, inventory, supply chains, safety, and careers that move people and products from one location to another.
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Students develop practical knowledge of money, business operations, accounting, financial decisions, entrepreneurship, law, and the skills needed to understand how organizations and personal finances work.
Accounting
Students learn accounting vocabulary and procedures while practicing transactions, journals, ledgers, financial statements, payroll, taxes, and the financial records businesses use to make decisions.
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Students examine legal principles that affect individuals and businesses, including agreements, contracts, consumer issues, workplace responsibilities, legal rights, and common business disputes.
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Students study the foundations of business, including ownership, management, marketing, finance, operations, entrepreneurship, communication, and how businesses respond to customers and markets.
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Students practice age-appropriate money skills including budgeting, saving, spending decisions, banking, earning money, using credit carefully, and setting financial goals.
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Students prepare for adult financial decisions through study of income, budgeting, banking, taxes, credit, borrowing, insurance, saving, investing, major purchases, and consumer choices.
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Students explore what it takes to start and operate a small business, including identifying an opportunity, understanding customers, developing a plan, estimating costs, marketing, and managing operations.
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Students examine how businesses use technology for communication, productivity, information management, decision-making, online commerce, customer service, and efficient operations.
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These electives help students understand the digital systems behind everyday technology while building skills in coding, computer systems, networks, digital media, technical support, keyboarding, and web development.
Intro to Coding
Students are introduced to programming logic through algorithms, sequencing, variables, decisions, repetition, problem-solving, testing, and debugging.
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Students use programming concepts to understand how interactive games and applications are planned, coded, tested, improved, and organized around user goals.
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Students develop computational thinking through algorithms, programming structures, variables, logic, debugging, problem decomposition, and the process of designing working programs.
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Students strengthen practical technology skills while learning digital organization, communication, responsible technology use, visual design, presentation, and basic digital content creation.
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Students study computer hardware, software, operating systems, storage, networks, security, system maintenance, troubleshooting, and how computer components work together.
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Students explore digital graphics, audio, video, media design, communication, production workflows, file types, creative tools, and how digital media is developed for different audiences.
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Students explore technical support through hardware, software, troubleshooting, maintenance, customer service, system security, problem diagnosis, and common responsibilities of IT support professionals.
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Students learn how computers communicate through networks while studying network hardware, layouts, protocols, addressing, internet connections, troubleshooting, and security concepts.
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Students improve keyboarding speed and accuracy while applying typing skills to practical documents, communication, data entry, schoolwork, and workplace-style computer tasks.
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Students move beyond basic networking to examine how networks are planned, configured, secured, expanded, documented, and maintained for different users and organizations.
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Students explore how websites are planned and built, including page structure, visual design, navigation, usability, web technologies, digital communication, testing, and responsible publishing.
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Students use design thinking, scientific reasoning, mathematics, creativity, testing, and problem-solving to explore how engineers and technology professionals turn ideas into workable solutions.
Robotics & Makers
Students explore robotics and maker-style problem-solving through mechanical systems, design challenges, basic programming concepts, prototypes, testing, troubleshooting, and improvement.
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Students use the engineering design process to define problems, develop ideas, build or model solutions, test results, evaluate limitations, and improve their designs.
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Students examine engineering fields while practicing design processes, technical problem-solving, planning, modeling, constraints, communication, testing, and evaluation.
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Students investigate how innovation develops from identifying needs, generating ideas, researching possibilities, solving problems, improving designs, and evaluating how new technologies affect society.
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Students follow the development of a product from identifying a need through research, design, prototypes, testing, improvement, production considerations, and final evaluation.
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These electives give students opportunities to read more deeply, write for different purposes, communicate ideas clearly, explore journalism, and build confidence in written and spoken expression.
American Literature
Students study American writing across major literary and historical periods through fiction, poetry, essays, and other works while strengthening interpretation, analysis, vocabulary, and written response.
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Students strengthen writing from planning through revision while developing paragraphs, essays, organization, sentence clarity, evidence, style, editing, and writing for different purposes and audiences.
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Students experiment with storytelling, description, character, setting, dialogue, poetry, imagery, voice, and revision while developing their own ideas into polished creative pieces.
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Students build practical communication skills through listening, speaking, interpersonal communication, written messages, presentations, audience awareness, and responsible communication in school and workplace settings.
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Students explore news writing, interviewing, research, reporting, editing, headlines, media ethics, audience, source evaluation, and the responsibilities involved in communicating information accurately.
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Students develop confidence in oral communication while learning speech organization, audience analysis, research, supporting evidence, delivery, persuasive speaking, informative presentations, and listening skills.
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Math electives provide additional opportunities for students to strengthen essential skills, apply mathematics to everyday financial decisions, and study advanced topics such as statistics and trigonometry.
Essentials of Math
Students strengthen important mathematical foundations through practical work with numbers, operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, measurement, algebraic thinking, geometry, and problem-solving.
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Students apply mathematics to adult life through wages, budgets, banking, taxes, credit, loans, housing, transportation, insurance, shopping, measurement, and other everyday financial decisions.
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Students begin studying data and chance through data collection, displays, measures of center and spread, probability, interpreting results, and recognizing patterns in numerical information.
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Students extend statistical reasoning through more complex probability, distributions, sampling, relationships between variables, interpreting studies, and using data to support conclusions.
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Students study relationships among angles and sides of triangles while working with trigonometric ratios, functions, identities, graphs, equations, and applications involving measurement and problem-solving.
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Science electives allow students to investigate focused areas of science through observation, evidence, laboratory work, Earth systems, geology, astronomy, and applied scientific reasoning.
Astronomy
Students explore the solar system, stars, galaxies, motion in space, observation of the sky, astronomical measurement, space exploration, and the scientific ideas used to study the universe.
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Students practice scientific investigation through observation, measurement, variables, data collection, experimental design, evidence, analysis, and hands-on applications of scientific concepts.
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Students investigate Earth's structure and systems through geology, weather, climate, water, landforms, natural processes, resources, and the interactions that continually shape the planet.
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Students explore rocks, minerals, Earth's layers, plate movement, erosion, fossils, geological processes, landforms, resources, and the evidence scientists use to understand Earth's physical history.
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Students reinforce General Science concepts through laboratory activities that emphasize observation, measurement, following procedures, recording results, analyzing evidence, and drawing scientific conclusions.
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These electives help students understand people, cultures, government, geography, and historical events while strengthening their ability to analyze evidence, context, cause and effect, and different perspectives.
Anthropology
Students examine human societies and cultures through traditions, language, family structures, belief systems, adaptation, social organization, cultural change, and the methods used to study people.
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Students study the foundations and structure of American government, citizenship, branches of government, constitutional principles, rights and responsibilities, elections, public policy, and civic participation.
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Students investigate physical and human geography through maps, regions, landforms, climate, population, culture, resources, migration, economic activity, and relationships between people and environments.
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Students examine the historical background, major events, political decisions, military developments, domestic debates, social change, and lasting effects connected with the Vietnam era.
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Art electives encourage students to observe carefully, make creative decisions, develop technical skills, understand visual elements, and communicate ideas through artistic work.
Visual Arts
Students explore line, shape, color, texture, form, space, composition, art materials, observation, creativity, and the process of developing ideas into finished visual work.
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Students strengthen artistic understanding through drawing, design, composition, color, visual analysis, creative problem-solving, art techniques, and the study of how artists communicate ideas.
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Students develop artwork through planning, experimentation, technique, composition, revision, critique, and sustained creative projects while building a stronger personal artistic voice.
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These courses help high school students plan ahead, prepare for standardized testing, organize college decisions, and understand the steps involved in moving from high school into further education.
ACT Test Prep
Students prepare for the ACT through targeted review of English, mathematics, reading, and science while practicing question types, pacing, test-taking strategies, and exam-style problems.
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Students organize the college-planning process by examining goals, possible schools and programs, entrance requirements, applications, testing, financial considerations, deadlines, and preparation for the transition after high school.
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Spanish electives develop practical language skills through vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, communication, and cultural understanding.
Spanish 1
Students build a foundation in Spanish through pronunciation, greetings, everyday vocabulary, present-tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, numbers, family, school, food, travel, and basic conversation.
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Students build on Spanish 1 with expanded vocabulary, more advanced grammar, additional verb forms, reading and writing practice, conversational situations, and deeper cultural study.
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Secular Core Academics
Newberry Academy Language, Math, Science, and History are secular. Bible curriculum is offered separately as an elective so families can decide whether to include religious study.
Start With Core Curriculum, Then Make It Your Own
Choose your student's core grade-level curriculum first, then add the electives that support their interests, future plans, and educational goals.
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