The Elementary STEM Coach Podcast

Naomi Meredith

A weekly show about teaching K-5 STEM and STEAM, with a monthly deep dive into 3D printing with young children. Hosted by Naomi Meredith. If someone handed you a STEM classroom and no curriculum, this is for you. Every week I share lesson ideas, tools you can actually use, and the systems and routines that keep a STEM room running, in episodes short enough to finish on your prep. I am also the person who worked out how to do 3D printing with five and six year olds. Almost every 3D printing curriculum starts at middle school, which leaves elementary teachers to figure it out alone. So once a month I cover it properly. Which printer to ask your principal for. What a realistic first project looks like for kindergarten. What to do when Tinkercad is too hard for your class, or when you have one printer and twenty-six kids. And what goes wrong before it goes right. Whether you are a K-5 STEM or STEAM teacher, a classroom teacher adding STEM, a GT specialist, a media or makerspace teacher, or a homeschool parent, you will find something you can use on Monday. I am a former classroom teacher, now a K-5 STEM teacher and coach, with an M.Ed. in STEM Leadership and a STEM Certificate. Your new STEM best friend, right in your earbuds.