STEM Club – The Water Cycle and Climate Change

Over the last two sessions at STEM Club, we have had a guest host, Dr Liz Lewis, from the University of Manchester enthusing our students about the world of hydrology and the impacts of climate change. In the first week, students made a model representing different parts of the water cycle in a catchment zone, learning lots of key terms and thinking about how water moves around us, from rainfall to rivers to interception by trees. In our last session together this year, we revisited the model and added to it after discussing all the effects on the water cycle we observe due to global warming and climate change. The students were very creative in making sewers, flood defences, wells and drainage pipes as well as offering great suggestions as to how we can adapt in future to combat the negative impacts of climate change. Dr Lewis was very impressed by the club’s participation in discussion, their enthusiasm and model making skills – well done, STEM Club 2024!

Dr McMahon, Mrs Cotton and Mr S Brown