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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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Look For These Departments!

Cool STEM Jobs.

Mini STEM Reads.

Data Analysis.

Would You Rather?.

Data Deep Dive.

Vocab Lab.

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Don’t Miss These Digital Resources

Vocabulary Kits.

Literacy Kits.

Slideshows.

Games.

Videos.

Special Text Collections.

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