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Fortune Tellers- Mr. Tree Lessons
A blank ‘Fortune Teller’ and directions are on the Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful website at
http://tinyurl.com/55mujs or
http://www.gwinnettcb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=9
(Scroll down to ‘Lesson Resources.’)
Once folded, if the Fortune Teller is laid out flat with the dotted lines on the bottom and the folded
triangles on top, there will be a center square formed by lines. The boxes within are where fingers are
placed when using the Fortune Teller. This is designated as the 1st Level. The triangles on the outside
of this box are the 2nd Level, and, when flipped over, the diamonds separated by dotted lines are the 3rd
Level. See the example Blank Fortune Teller to show orientation of writing. For older students who
can write smaller, you can also divide levels 2 & 3 to double the information tested. See the copy of
the 4 Rs Fortune Teller to show students how to orient their writing for this double information.
The following chart gives some examples for each level. Feel free to make up your own, and please
send them on to Brenda McDaniel, Education Manager, at [email protected] so that we can
share them on the website.
Teachers can give student any part of this chart- perhaps only the topics from Level 1, then have
students make up questions and provide answers. The students then use their Fortune Tellers with other
students who answer the written questions, and check their answer on Level 3.
As this activity can be used by most grade levels, please adapt the following chart to your lesson plan
and other resources. We have tried to provide complete info as background for teachers.
These following topics and levels can be used for a variety of other applications- foldables put together
as a poster or bulletin board, fill-in charts, Jeopardy-style game, etc.
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Fortune Tellers- Mr. Tree Lessons
TOPIC
Why are trees
good for our
environment?
What do trees
provide for
people?
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
People
How do trees help people?
Animals
How do trees help animals?
Plants
How do trees help other plants?
Soil
How do trees help the soil?
People 1
People 2
People 3
Wood
Leaves
Sap
People 4
Fruit
Takes water and nutrients from the
ground
Holds soil in place (so doesn’t wash or
blow away)
Root
Anchors tree in place
Parts of tree &
functions
Stores food & water
Trunk &
Branches
(Stem)
Flower
Leaves
How do trees
help animals?
Habitat
Habitat
Food
Food
Mutualism
Symbiotic
Relationships
with Trees
Commensalism
Parasitism
Endosymbiosis
Transportation system
Holds leaves out to sunlight
Makes pollen
Becomes fruit or seed
Make food for tree
Take in carbon dioxide
Nests
Trunk or branches
Leaves
Bark
Definition: both individuals benefit
Definition: one of the organisms
benefits, the other is not significantly
harmed or helped
Definition: one organism benefits
while other is harmed
Definition: one organism lives within
the tissues of the other
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LEVEL 3
Provide products, are beautiful,
provide shade, make oxygen
Habitat, food, shelter, place to
reproduce, place to hide
Shade other plants, help hold soil in
place, enrich soils through leaves that
drop
Holds soil around tree, windbreak
(prevents wind erosion), holds excess
water to release as needed
Houses, furniture, pencils, paper
Make oxygen for people to breathe
Maple syrup, rubber
Nuts(except peanuts), avocados, olive
oil, apples, peaches, oranges
Tree has ingredients to make food for
itself
Soils provide water, nutrients
Prevents tree blowing over, being
carried away by animals, maintains it
in a beneficial location
Keeps tree alive during drought,
winter, in poor soils
Carry food and water between roots
and leaves
Maximizes the amount of sun and air
exposure for each leaf
Bees use for honey, helps tree to make
seeds
Helps disperse seed
Give off oxygen
Decrease CO2 load in atmosphere
Birds, squirrels
Tree frogs, honeybees, bugs
Deer, caterpillars, giraffes
Porcupine, insects
Example: woodpecker eats bugs from
a tree, reducing its exposure to pests
and feeding the woodpecker
Example: Squirrels living in trees
Example: Mistletoe, Spanish moss
benefit but eventually kill the tree
Example: nitrogen-fixing bacteria in
roots
Fortune Tellers- Mr. Tree Lessons
TOPIC
Human Impact
on Trees
Parts of a Root
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
Pollution
How does pollution harm trees?
Herbicides
How do herbicides harm trees?
Pesticides
How do pesticides harm trees?
Deforestation
Why are trees cut down?
Outer tissue
Fine areas
of root (not
in all plants)
Tip of root
Inner
portion of
root
Leaves
Tree
Adaptations
Epidermis
Toxic chemicals can be taken up by
the tree from soil, water, or air, and
they could harm the tree.
May kill or injure the tree. (Herbicides
kill plants.)
May kill pollinators or other beneficial
insects. (Pesticides kill
animals/insects.
To provide land for farming, houses;
to make products for humans, provide
fuel for cooking or heating
Protects root
Root hairs
Increase surface area for absorption
Root cap
Protects delicate growth tissues
Cortex
Food storage
Waxy cuticle
Prevents moisture loss
Funnels rainwater to base of tree for
roots
Drip point
Trunk and
Branches
Roots
Brittle or Elastic
Determined by usual wind velocity
Standard or fleshy for storage
Shape
Pyramidal, round, etc.
Ex. Carrots, potatoes
Dependent on wind, snowfall,
predation, etc.
Wind
Water
Seed Dispersal
Animals
Expulsion/
Explosion
Tree Tissues
LEVEL 3
Vascular
Tissue
Vascular
Tissue
Reproductiv
e Tissue
Waxy
covering
Wings, hairs or outgrowths to increase
surface area; must be small and light
weight
Floats on water, exterior impervious to
water
Eaten by animals & excreted, hook
sticks to fur like a burr, cached by
animals, etc.
Seed pod dries & opens; seeds fly out
to land on ground away from the
parent plant
Xylem
Phloem
Maple , dandelion
Mangrove, coconut
Acorns- squirrels bury
Fruit such as raspberries- birds excrete
seeds in another place
Pea family
Moves water, nutrients, & minerals
up from roots to leaves
Moves manufactured food down from
leaves to roots
Cambium
Makes new xylem and phloem
Cuticle
Outer layer in leaves for protection
Some other topics to make your own Fortune Teller, or have students design their own:
photosynthesis, plant cell organelles and their functions, successional changes in an ecosystem, tree adaptations,
analogous systems, etc.
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