The GMS Theme Studies program enables students to make connections across disciplines in a real-world setting. Students apply and integrate both skills and content in reading, writing, mathematics, science, art, and drama. The skills listed below reflect only the "social studies" component of the theme studies program. Theme studies work is also used to evaluate skills in the other integrated disciplines.

Themes are studied for ten weeks at a time, depending on the number of themes explored. All students in the school study the same theme at the same time. The three themes for the 2010-11 school year are West Africa, Our Nation Expands, Attention GreenMount Shoppers. Complete theme curricula are available in the school office for review. All themes end with a culminating event that allows students to experience the process of production and presentation.

By the end of grade 3, students can perform these skills:

• relate historical concepts to personal experiences
• investigate theme-related information
• explain theme concepts verbally and in paragraph form
• show understanding of chronology
• master geographic directions
• understand landforms and physical geography characteristics
• short oral presentation

By the end of grade 5, students can perform these skills:

• construct and ask historically or culturally accurate and appropriate questions
• conduct basic research using both books and the internet
• use search engines effectively
• use atlases, encyclopedias and similar reference materials effectively to obtain information
• interpret and create a map key
• create a timeline
• learn basic note taking skills
• acquire keyboarding skills

By the end of grade 8, students can perform these skills:

• extract important and topical information from factual reading
• create an in-depth biographical sketch
• use and interpret different map types
• understand, identify and implement various memorization techniques
• construct and present a comprehensive research paper
• identify and extract important information from primary sources
• keep and record organized notes from verbal instruction and textual material
• explicitly and accurately site sources of research
• show understanding of how individuals affect historical trends
• identify historical context
• organize, prepare and give a successful oral presentation utilizing public speaking skills
• memorize facts and information
• compare and contrast information
• gain cooperative group skills
• interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives
• make connections between past and present events
• use and identify text features