COOL Classroom 2.1

Welcome to the new version of the COOL Classroom.

The goal of the COOL Classroom site is to increase students' understanding and appreciation of the ocean in their lives by using real-time data to engage them in active ocean science research and to demonstrate the excitement of ocean science by connecting them with observatory scientists.

The COOL Classroom Classic site is still available, where you can find additional lessons and activities.

Register Today

Educators, please create a COOL Classroom account. This will allow you to see helpful tips designed just for you as you proceed through our Adventure lessons. In the near future, you will also be able to manage your students' online journals.

Class Management

Upcoming Features

  • Create new student accounts directly from your account
  • Create classes and assign students to them
  • Update student account passwords
  • View your student's journals
  • Assign an active Adventure unit to each class
  • Leave comments on student journals

Teacher's Lounge

Site News

August 14, 2013 - Spatial Literacy Pilot

This summer we launched a new Cool Classroom unit on Spatial Literacy which invites students to investigate the causes and effects of seagrass decline in Barnegat Bay. We invite you to check it out now Spatial Literacy Adventure >>.

Nov 23, 2010 - Welcome NSTA Science Teacher Readers!

The COOL Classroom is an online web portal that provides guided inquiry-based lessons on ocean and environmental themes. We have several new lessons in the works, including a unit on Seagrasses that emphasizes concepts related to spatial literacy, and another on bacteria and enzymes. These will be available for piloting in the Fall of 2012. For now, we invite you to check out the Hudson River Plume Adventure >>.

Adventure Unit Plans

Each COOL Classroom Adventure has a detailed Unit Plan that includes a breakdown of the content and concepts, a suggested classroom schedule, and a list of the relevant science standards.

COOL Classroom Unit Plans >>

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