2025-26 Editorial Calendar
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Dear teachers,
I am delighted to share our calendar for the 2025-26 school year! On the following slides, you’ll find the stories we are planning to publish for the fall and spring semesters—along with their science, technology, engineering, and math skills and standards.
As always, our team is standing by to support you in any way we can. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any comments, questions, or suggestions!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Carney
Editor, SuperSTEM
superSTEM@scholastic.com
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Fall 2025
ISSUE | FEATURE ARTICLE | SUBJECT AREA | STANDARDS |
September | ✈️🛠️ COOL STEM JOBS: How a mechanic makes sure planes are safe to fly | Physical Science, Engineering | Forces and Motion, Multistep Word Problems |
🫢🤧 YOU DECIDE: Would you rather have hiccups forever or always be about to sneeze? | Life Science | Structure and Function | |
October/�November | 🕳️ SINKHOLE: Look out—this erosion-powered phenomenon causes the ground to suddenly collapse | Earth Science | Earth’s Materials and Systems, Natural Hazards |
🐺🧬 ANIMAL EXTINCTION: Researchers have bred gray wolf pups that carry DNA from the ancient, massive dire wolf. | Life Science | Growth and Development | |
December/�January | 🏒⛸️ SCIENCE OF ICE HOCKEY: From slapshots to hockey stops, science explains ice hockey’s coolest moves | Physical Science | Forces and Motion, Matter, Angles |
🐕🛷 GRAPHIC NOVEL: How heroic sled dogs delivered life-saving medicine | Life Science, Earth Science, Engineering | Structure and Function, Weather and Climate |
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Spring 2026
ISSUE | FEATURE ARTICLE | SUBJECT AREA | STANDARDS |
February | 🌱🪰 KILLER PLANTS: How plants catch and kill insects for meals | Life Science | Adaptations, Structure and Function |
🌍🛞 WORLD-CHANGING TECH: Discover five of the most important innovations of all time! | Engineering | Engineering | |
March/April | 🐊🦕 GRAPHIC NOVEL: Join a 12-year-old in the 1800s as she discovers the fossil of an ancient sea creature | Earth Science, Life Science | Earth’s History, Evidence of Common Ancestry |
🚀🌕 COOL STEM JOBS: Astronauts will pilot the first moon mission in 5 decades | Earth and Space Science, Engineering | Solar System and Universe, Addition With Regrouping | |
May/June | 🌵🦂 STEM VACATION: Is there life in California’s vast desert? Welcome to Death Valley! | Earth Science, Life Science | Weather and Climate, Adaptations |
🇺🇸 THE U.S.A. TURNS 250: Learn how revolutionaries used secret codes in their fight for independence | Engineering | Engineering, Explain Patterns in Arithmetic |
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Cool STEM Jobs.
Mini STEM Reads.
Data Analysis.
Would You Rather?.
Data Deep Dive.
Vocab Lab.
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Vocabulary Kits.
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Slideshows.
Games.
Videos.
Special Text Collections.
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