Plants & Animals Sorting with Venn Diagrams

Sort features into what belongs to plants only, to animals only, and to both

Recognise the shared characteristics of living things - breathing, growing, drinking, moving, being alive and dying

Identify a word that fits neither category and place it outside the diagram rather than forcing it into a circle

Read a two-circle Venn diagram, understanding that the overlap means both labels apply at once

The word bank stays printed at the foot of the page after sorting, so a finished sheet can be checked against the original seventeen terms without a second copy

Six of the seventeen words go in the overlap, which is the largest single group - worth pointing out before students start, since many expect the middle to be the smallest section

One word belongs nowhere on the diagram, so tell students in advance that not every card has a home; otherwise moon tends to be pushed into whichever circle has space

Plant-only and animal-only each take exactly five words, which gives a quick self-check: any student with six on one side has misplaced something

The completed page keeps the same layout and word bank as the working page, so it can be shown side by side on a board for whole-class marking

Sorting by attribute - seventeen feature words are assigned to plants, to animals, or to both, using a printed word bank.

Reading a Venn diagram - the overlap holds six words that apply to plants and animals at once, which is the diagram's whole point.

Recognising the characteristics of living things - breathe, grow, drink, move, alive and die are the shared terms students place in the middle.

Rejecting a distractor - moon appears in the word bank but belongs in neither circle, so students have to decide against placing it.