Practice

1.       During the class, the teacher will make a presentation of the subject to be studied, which is the universe, in which the students must take notes to carry out the following activity. 

10 minutes: The teacher makes a brief explanation and reviews the notes that the students have taken and clears up doubts that the students have.

40 minutes: The teacher gives each student an exercise with a crossword, which contains questions about the subject, they must fill it out so that the students can then exchange the exercise and give feedback on them, where the teacher will be pending.

 

10 minutes: The students exchange the crossword puzzles to give feedback, then they make an explanation with the teacher who gives them feedback and each one explains the concepts they understood.

 

Crossword puzzles improve students' retention of information and attention, they develop skills and abilities; and as a pastime they promote concentration, entertainment, creativity and the need to be informed in areas both academic and cultural, which leads to the development of intelligence.

According to Cedeño (1995) and Bello (1995) the objectives of the introduction of crossword puzzles in higher level pedagogical processes are:

• Guarantee the student habits of collective elaboration of academic decisions.

• Increase the interest of students and their motivation for the

technical subjects and language.

• Check the level of knowledge reached by the students: they rectify the wrong actions and indicate the correct ones.

• Allow to solve the problems of correlation of the activities of direction and control of the teachers, as well as the collective self-control of the students.

• Develop generalized skills and professional capacities in the practical order.

• Improve interpersonal relationships, the formation of coexistence habits and make classes more enjoyable.

• Increase the level of independent preparation of the students and the teacher has the possibility of analyzing, in a more detailed way, the assimilation of the technical content taught.

• Provide a concrete foundation for conceptual thinking and therefore reduce students' meaningless verbal responses.

• Have a high degree of interest for students.

• Make learning last longer.

• Offer a real experience that stimulates activity on the part of the students.