Oracy can be defined as the range of speaking and listening skills, behaviours and language necessary for effective communication and collaboration. Oracy skills encompass physical, social and emotional, linguistic and cognitive aspects of learning. How do you support oracy in the classroom? The Oracy Edit: 6 Ways To Boost SpokenRead More →

Your National Identification Number (NIN) is used to tie together all records about you – demographic data, fingerprints, head-to-shoulder facial picture, other biometric data and digital signature – in the National Identity Database making it relatively easy to confirm and verify your identity when you engage in … What isRead More →

The counter-current flow of the blood and dialysate maximizes the concentration gradient of solutes between the blood and dialysate, which helps to remove more urea and creatinine from the blood. Why the countercurrent flow dialysis is more efficient? The counter-current method is the most efficient because it maintains the sameRead More →

Lifelong Learning Helps Teachers Face Challenges Teachers who adopt a lifelong learning mindset have access to information and use it to collaborate with others. Learning teachers also view mistakes and challenges as part of the learning process rather than as failures. Why is learning important for students? Research has demonstratedRead More →

The study of the troposphere is very important because we breathe the air in this layer of air. … Tropospheric processes, such as the water or hydrologic cycle (the formation of clouds and rain) and the greenhouse effect, have a great influence on meteorology and the climate. What is theRead More →

Forces are important because, as we learned in another lesson, they are responsible for changes in motion. In fact, Isaac Newton describes this in his first law. This law of inertia states that an object continues in its state of rest or motion unless acted on by an outside unbalancedRead More →

White-backed vultures have a very important role in the ecosystem. By removing animal remains, these scavengers clean up the environment, helping to prevent diseases from spreading. What are predators of white-backed vulture? African White-Backed Vultures have no natural predators, except humans. There are no subspecies of the African White-Backed Vulture.Read More →

A higher audio bit depth indicates a more detailed sound recording. Similarly, for image and video files, bit depth is used to determine the resolution of a picture. The higher the bit depth — 24 bit versus 16 bit, for example — the better the image. Is 8 or 16Read More →

In the column that had egg yolk you may have seen areas of darker green, purple, and/or black coloring develop over time near the bottom—these colorings could be groups of certain anaerobic bacteria: green sulfur bacteria, purple sulfur bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria, respectively. What should you expect to see inRead More →