Grade 3- Plants
- Hymsco Library
- Jul 16, 2024
- 1 min read
Safety measures to observe when handling plants
Plants are useful to us in many ways.
We should handle plants with care.
Some plants are dangerous as they have things such as thorns.
Thorns can injure us
Some plants are poisonous
We should avoid them by not eating them
We can handle plants safely by:
✓ Using protective gears such as gloves.
✓ Have knowledge about poisonous plants and how to handle them.
✓ Wash hands before and after handling crops.
✓ Use tools to handle.
✓ Disposal of plant wastes.
Classifying of plants.
Plants are of different types.
They also grow in different areas.
Plants have many uses such as food, medicines, livestock feed, materials for building etc.
Classifying plants into edible and non-edible
Edible and non-edible plants
∙ We use plants as food.
∙ The plants we use as food are called edible plants.
∙ We eat their different parts such as leaves and roots
Plants we eat roots
Plants we eat fruits
Plants we eat the leaves
Plants that give us seeds that we eat
Plants we eat the stems
Some plants cannot be eaten.
Plants that cannot be eaten are called non-edible plants.
Some of the non-edible plants include:
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