With our educator edition newsletters, we aim to highlight STEM celebration days, weeks, and months throughout the year to provide organic reasons to dive deeper into various topics. Below, you will find FREE content to augment your classroom activities: X-STEM All Access videos featuring STEM role models, NGSS & CASEL aligned lesson plans, and video playlists created for each topic. 

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Get a close-up look at the career of Air Force data scientist TSgt Terica Clewis. Learn how her work designing innovative software systems helps the U.S. Air Force efficiently manage, store, and process large-scale data. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free.

Tune in for an inspiring conversation with U.S. Air Force civil engineer Lt Col Cassandra McCloud. Hear how Lt Col McCloud has used her experience as a civil and bio-environmental engineer in both civilian and military roles. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free.

Join Kelly Knight, forensic scientist, and George Mason University Professor, for an in-depth conversation about The Real CSI - Forensic Science. Learn how K-12 educators can create their own mock crime scene in the classroom to demonstrate forensic science. Watch this episode. Find more resources from this episode here!

Join science communicator Susie Martínez for a Q&A session with Capt Tasia Reed of the U.S. Space Force. Get a glimpse into Capt Reed's journey and life as a U.S. Space Force Space Operations Officer. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with these lessons? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free.

Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe and Primatologist & Explorer Dr. Mireya Mayor discuss conversation and the climate. Watch this episode. Click here and here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free here and here.

Did you know the many ways that chemistry impacts our daily lives? Learn more about chemistry and its impact with The Classy Chemist, Dr. Yasmine Daniels. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free.

NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch and NASA Systems Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi talk about Life Beyond our World. With a special guest appearance by NASA Astronaut Dr. Jessica Meir. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan here and here in PocketLab for free.

Learn what it's like to be a space engineer and planetary defender at NASA with engineer Joan Melendez Misner. Watch this episode. Click here for the FREE NGSS and CASEL aligned companion lesson. Want more ways to interact with this lesson? Check out the lesson plan in PocketLab for free.

Tune in to learn an adaptable framework to make any activity into an engineering challenge, plus K-12 examples that illustrate how easy it is to make small tweaks to existing activities to fit an engineering design challenge template. Watch this episode. Find more resources from this episode here!