What’s poisonous?

In this activity, students learn about toxins and poisons and research what’s poisonous in New Zealand.

By the end of this activity, students should be able to:

• describe how at least one historical poison disaster helped people in the future

• explain the difference between toxins (natural toxins) and other poisons

• explain how poisons/toxins can be useful

• describe and talk about toxic animals, plants or bacteria (in food) in New Zealand

• explain what to do in a case of poisoning and describe what the National Poison Centre is.

Download the Word file (see link below) for:

• introduction/background notes

• what you need

• what to do.