COOL Classroom Adventures

Welcome to the COOL Classroom Adventures page! Each Adventure below will take you on a cool tour of exciting ocean science research. Along the way you will meet Rutgers scientists and play with real ocean data.

There are only a few adventures right now, but we will continue to add new adventures in each thematic category for you to participate in.

Choose Your Adventure

Hudson River Plume [Human Impacts] Where does river water end up? Find out as you journey through the Hudson River watershed and out into the ocean. Along the way, you will discover how something microscopic can impact clams, fish, and other organisms hundreds to thousands of times their size.

Readings and More

• The Pollution Solution [Human Impacts]
• Water [Earth Systems]
• Dead Zones [Human Impacts]
• New Jersey’s Dead Zone [Human Impacts]
• A Bacterial Brunch [Ocean Life]
• Enzymes - The Stuff of Life [Ocean Life]
• Measuring Marine Microbes Using Enzymes [Technology]
• Microbe Size and Abundance [Ocean Life]
• Importance of Marine Microbes [Ocean Life]