Cambridge
Elementary Magnet School of Arts and Science
Cambridge is a school in which science literally becomes Art in a curriculum
that integrates the Visual and Performing Arts with Science and Technology.
Teachers use the Different Ways of Knowing model of instruction to tap
into the multiple intelligences of students and give each child the opportunity
to express knowledge through the Arts. This 21st Century Learning Center
comes with two parallel tracks for learning — the traditional 3
Rs of Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and the three Arts of Dance, Music
and the Visual Arts. Students demonstrate their mastery of the curriculum
through the arts by “Coming to Know, Showing You Know and Knowing
You Know.” From mastering dance moves to designing robots, students
use their right and left brains to master multiple literacies — media,
sensory, art, academic and cultural.
Students engage in hands-on, inquiry based science investigation in a
well-equipped science lab, the butterfly garden, flower/vegetable gardens,
green house, weather station and aquatic ecosystems. Partnering with
community science agencies such as NASA, Florida Solar Energy Center
and Brevard Community College Planetarium allows the students to have
wonderful resources for science research and development.
As a Florida Music Demonstration School, students participate in hands-on
music labs using keyboards, Orff instruments and African Tubano Drums
to learn music theory. Music composition is taught using high-level software
which allows the students to actually publish their own work. The chorus,
orchestra and dance ensembles provide the students with the opportunities
to use their own talents to excel in the areas of music performance.
2000 Cambridge Dr, Cocoa, FL 32922 • Tel (321) 633-3550
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