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= Watch the children from Cyprus and South Africa in the movies below to help you get started on your project. Then Join US and many other students from around the world to Balance the Power of Water. =

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Project Objectives -

 * === Learn about the power of water in your community. ===
 * **Share your findings on this wiki.**
 * **Collaborate with students from around the world by offering solutions to global water issues.**

Project Details -
This project implements the following criteria:
 * Knowledge Building and Critical Thinking
 * Learning Beyond the Classroom
 * Collaboration
 * ICT
 * 21st Century Skills

// Students are required to work collaboratively, sharing responsibility and making substantive decisions about their work, by working with other students from their class and their school, as well as with students from other schools anywhere in the world--globally. Firstly they will seek information about the power of water in their community. The students will work in small groups in order to identify significant water issues of their country and decide how to present those findings (e.g. through photostory, powerpoint, photosynth, moviemaker, kodu, voicethread, etc.) on collaborative platforms such as wikis and blogs. // // Moreover, students from around the world will be asked to interact with each other and include their ideas by looking at the water situation in their countries and offering help or asking for help. Thus, students will also collaborate with experts (using tools such as Skype, LiveMeeting, Facebook page, email, discussion groups and YouTube). We will especially encourage students to work with scientists from the Smithsonian Museum of American History (e.g. on hydroelectric energy), the Air and Space Museum (the Earth as seen from above: no boundaries, mostly water) and the Natural History Museum (ocean life), as well as with scientists from their own countries. // // Students use ICT with a learner-centered approach for their learning. They apply search skills to acquire the knowledge and then use collaboration skills to discuss this knowledge with students around the world and make substantive decisions to implement solutions to issues about water in global communities. All of these tasks and learning would be impossible, well, let’s say next to impossible, without technology. Students are enabled to find information anywhere, to connect with anyone anywhere and to share their solutions everywhere. // // The technologies used in this learning project include a wiki, photostory, movie maker, skype, prezi, voicethread, photosynth, powerpoint, youtube, slideshare, mouse mischief, flickr, kodu, songsmith, publisher, autocollage, word, tumblr and google apps. The project is not restricted to these technologies—any technology tool that allows collaboration and sharing is adequate. //

Watch //Last Call at the Oasis// trailer from YouTube to understand the severity of the balance or imbalance of water in our world -
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