The biggest difficulty with designing crosswords is in constructing the crossword itself. However, you can use specially designed software packages (such as Crossword Compiler) that will automatically fit the words you need into a grid.
And do not forget other games approaches to questions. Looking through any of the dozens of puzzle magazines available in newsagents will give you ideas about how to structure questions in a more entertaining way.
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(C) Bryan Hopkins, 2005
Crosswords
Crosswords can be effective in making learning materials
more interesting for a learner. Many people find the challenge of completing
a crossword engaging and a good stimulus to learning, and so they are particularly
useful for knowledge-based learning, where the learner is expected to learn
a lot of factual information.
Look at this example:
The answers to this crossword are all connected to the uses of fuels as feedstocks to chemical processes.
Across
1 Process used to purify aluminium (12)
3 Infamous as World War 1 poison gas (8)
7 5 cents or a metal (6)
10 Brings drains up a treat (7,4)
12 Sticks bricks (6)
Down
2 Source material (3)
4 Sweet-tasting food additive (8)
5 Process for removing oxygen sounds like it's getting smaller (9)
6 Major component of natural gas (7)
8 Compound containing sodium (8)
9 Better known with other chemicals as the '...ide', which we use on our teeth
(8)
11 Policeman? (6)
