Poisonous Plants Activity

Students identify the labelled poisonous plants and colour their illustrations red, using this worksheet to distinguish the featured plants.
Year groups
Years 4–11 (Key Stages 2–4)
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1
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Nature & Plants, Life Sciences, Science
Topic
Poisonous Plants Activity, Poisonous Plants
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Activity Introduction

An amazing activity designed for the students to learn more about STEM subjects.

Poisonous Plants

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Poisonous Plants

This friendly designed worksheet is suitable for students at school, homeschooling, and as a group activity.

Instructions

Colour the poisonous plants red from below.

Format

Available in a PDF format.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Use prior instruction to select the poisonous plants in a set of ten labelled illustrations.

  • Follow the worksheet direction by colouring selected plant pictures red.

Teaching tips

  • Use as a quick science warm-up or exit ticket, since the colouring task takes only a few minutes.

  • Follow up with a class discussion of why each coloured 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 colouring 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 colour-selection instruction

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