{"id":292,"date":"2025-11-07T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/?p=292"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:11:48","slug":"stem-hand-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whitenessp7\/2025\/11\/07\/stem-hand-models\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Hand Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Merryn Burgess<\/p>\n

This week we made hand models! The hand models that we made was a STEM activity that we did with P5\/6 as part of out topic \u2018Fix It\u2019.<\/p>\n

Because it was Halloween, we made a skeleton type model of a human hand and were learning about the bones, joints and tendons.<\/p>\n

We had a challenge to make a moving hand!<\/p>\n

First, we got into groups of 3 and got all of our supplies (card, scissors, sellotape, some straws, string and a ruler.) \u00a0\u00a0Then we figured out who had the biggest hand and drew the outline onto the paper.<\/p>\n

The second thing we did was carefully cut out the hand and drew on all of the finger joints.<\/p>\n

Next, we had to take straws and cut them to the correct size and attach them to the hand.\u00a0 This was to represent the tendon sheaths.<\/p>\n

The next bit was quite fiddly!\u00a0 We had to take a piece of string and thread it through the straw and tie a knot at the end so it wouldn\u2019t slip out.<\/p>\n

Finally, we stuck the hand model to a ruler (this was acting as the arm.)<\/p>\n

It was important we had time to fix our models before the challenges.\u00a0 Some groups realised their straws were too long or that the Sellotape was getting in the way.<\/p>\n

In our groups we had lots of fun activities to do.\u00a0 We had to pull on certain strings to make signals like: a peace sign, the rock sign and the shaka.<\/p>\n

Then we had to use our model to pick up a piece of paper.<\/p>\n

I liked it when we joined another group and used our model hands to high five, fist pump, pinkie promise and play a game of rock, paper, scissors!<\/p>\n