Poisonous Plants Activity

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This one-page Poisonous Plants worksheet presents ten labeled plant illustrations. Students select the poisonous plants and color those pictures red.

Provide instruction about the featured plants before the activity. The PDF contains the picture-selection task, without an explanatory passage or answer key.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Use prior instruction to select the poisonous plants in a set of ten labeled illustrations.
Follow the worksheet direction by coloring selected plant pictures red.

Teaching tips

Use as a quick science warm-up or exit ticket, since the coloring task takes only a few minutes.
Follow up with a class discussion of why each colored plant is dangerous, since the page itself gives only plant names, not explanations.
Introduce the featured plant names and classifications before assigning the sheet. The download supplies labels and a coloring instruction, with no explanatory reading or answer key.

Skills covered

Plant-name recognition within the supplied picture set
Applying taught information to a printed classification task
Following a color-selection instruction

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What do students do on the page?

They look at the labeled plant pictures, identify which plants are poisonous, and color those selections red.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Poisonous plants
Plant identification
Science safety awareness

Topics

Poisonous plants Plant identification Life science Plant safety Coloring worksheet

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