1. EXT. ANIMAL TOWN PARK - DAY ESTABLISHING. It’s a sunny late summer day, and the park is decked out for a FESTIVAL! There are food stands and displays, and festive <MUSIC> plays OS. In QUICK, CLOSE CUTS we establish a theme... - FOOD STAND - MRS. GORILLA dumps TOMATOES into her giant stewpot, and attacks them with a masher... - a TOMATO HEADED MASCOT circulates, waving hello. He shakes hands with a young BEAVER. - CONTEST TABLE - FARMER BEAR is judging a TABLE FULL of BIG TOMATOES. Smiling, he hangs a RIBBON on the biggest one. FARMER BEAR (announces) Grand Champion of the Tomato Festival! ELINOR, ARI and HAZEL (wearing BACKPACKS) are walking through. Hazel has a tomato-patterned scarf on her head, tied with a bow over one ear. ArI Ahh, the Tomato Festival, my FAVOURITE part of tomato season! ElINOR Me too, I LOVE all the tomato-y things. Hazel Like this scarf! Hazel stops at display of tomato-themed souvenirs, including big, silk scarf. She lifts up on end and lets the scarf slowly fall. HazeL (CONT’D) So big and floaty. Just then, a nearby P.A. SPEAKER squawks: FARMER BEAR (VO, speaker) Attention please! Everyone who wants to enter the Tomato Drop Challenge, please head to the contest area now. aRI (excited) That’s us! Come on, let’s go! They head off. Cut TO: 2. EXT. TOMATO DROP CONTEST AREA - continuous Ari, Hazel and Elinor join a group of kids at the contest area. (A set of LAMB TRIPLETS, and SALLY BEAVER.) LAMBS /SALLY (excited walla) THREE LADDERS are widely spaced out on the grass. FARMER BEAR appears, with a basket of ripe tomatoes under one arm. He <WHISTLES> for attention, and the group quiets. Farmer BEAR Welcome to the tomato drop challenge! Any team that can drop a tomato from the top of their ladder without splattering it, will win a prize. Elinor, Hazel and Ari exchange excited looks. ElINOR Oooh, a PRIZE! Farmer Bear picks up the basket of tomatoes and begins handing them out, three to a team. FARMER BEAR Each team gets three tomatoes, and you can build anything you like, to try to keep them from splattering. Farmer sets his basket aside, and gets an AIR HORN in hand. FARMER BEAR (CONT’D) Any questions? (beat) No? In that case... Ready! Set! The kids all get into a ready stance, clutching their fruit. Farmer Bear holds the air horn high... FARMER BEAR (CONT’D) ...GOOO-MATO! <HONNNNK!> He holds onto his straw hat as the kids stampede past, each team headed to their assigned ladder! 3. EXT. DROP LADDER - CONTINUOUS Elinor, Ari and Hazel run with their tomatoes to their assigned ladder, and sling off their backpacks. aRI Okay. I’ve got a great plan! We take two slices of bread... Ari gets TWO SLICES OF BREAD from his pack and hurriedly tries to tie them around a tomato, with TWINE. ARI (V.O.) ...and tie ‘em around the tomato to cushion it when it drops! CU ON: The bread rips and crumbles.. eLINOR Bread might be too crumbly, Ari. ARI Eh, you’re right. (brightens) How ‘bout a bagel? Undaunted, he pulls out a SLICED BAGEL. Hazel (diplomatic) Let’s call that Plan B. ELINOR I have an idea, too... Elinor pulls a few items from her own pack. SPRINGS, TAPE, and a SMALL CARDBOARD BOX. ELINOR (CONT’D) What if we take these springs I brought... Elinor holds the end of a spring to the outside of the box, and squeezes the spring for emphasis. EliNOR (CONT’D) ...and tape them to the out side of this box. Then we can put the tomato in side... THOUGHT BUBBLE: Shows Elinor’s idea. Hazel nods, catching her drift. HAZEL Oh! So when we drop the tomato, it’ll bounce instead of splat? IN THE THOUGHT BUBBLE: The box bounces a few times and then tomato pops out, perfect, then the bubble bursts. ELINOR Hopefully! ARI I love it! Let’s try it! They quickly get busy taping the springs all over the outside of the box. As they work, we MATCH DISSOLVE TO: 4. EXT. DROP LADDER - MINUTES LATER The box is now bristling with springs. Elinor places the tomato into the box, and tapes it shut. eLINOR (calls) Farmer Bear? We’re ready to try a drop! Farmer Bear heads over with a clipboard to watch the test. Elinor climbs the ladder with their spring-covered box. FARMER BEAR That’s one springy box! Ready when you are. With Hazel and Ari watching anxiously, Elinor dangles the box from the top of the ladder - then releases it. Sure enough, when it hits the ground it <BOUNCES... and BOUNCES... and BOUNCES> around! Ari and Hazel scramble to catch it. Hazel Whoa. <BOING> Hey! <BOING> Come back here! Finally, Ari seizes it. ari <BOING> Gotcha! Farmer Bear and the girls hurry over. FARMER BEAR Let’s see what’cha got! CLOSE ON the box as Ari opens it. REVEAL... a box full of splattered tomato. ELINOR (huff) Tomato sauce. I think it bounced around too much. Farmer Bear smiles sympathetically. FARMER BEAR Well, don’t give up. You still have two more tomatoes! Lamb #1 (part os) Farmer Bear? We’re ready to try! CUT TO: The LAMB TRIPLETS LADDER. One of the LAMBS is holding a HUGE BALL OF WOOL at the top of their ladder. HAZEL Oh look, they’re using their wool to make a softer landing! Farmer Bear hurries over to witness their drop. Lamb #1 Stand baa-a-a-ack! The wool is dropped - it <FLOOFS> down gently. Lamb #2 reaches into the wool-ball, and pulls out - an intact tomato! LamB 1, 2, 3 / BEAVER / hazel / ari / elinor (cheers) FARMER BEAR Nicely done! Our first winners! BACK ON Elinor, Hazel and Ari, watching. ARI Cool! I wish we had some wool. Just then, the <BREEZE> picks up, disturbing some nearby dandelions, which have gone to seed... SCIENCE CU: Elinor notices the fluff floating by. ELINOR Ohhh! Elinor captures it in her hands, and holds it up. ELINOR (CONT’D) We don’t need wool. We can use dandelion fluff to pad the tomato, like the wool. THOUGHT BUBBLE: Hazel’s plan, a tomato with dandelion fluff taped to it. HAZEL Okay! But we’ll need a lot of it. In the THOUGHT BUBBLE: The dandelion fluff ball grows and grows until the bubble BURSTS! ARI Then we’d better get fluffin’! They all get busy gathering fluff from the dandelions all around them. As ‘fluff’ fills the frame, we ‘fluff’ wipe to: 5. EXT. SAME LOCATION - MINUTES LATER Elinor holds a PUFF OF DANDELION FLUFF (which keeps trying to blow away) as Hazel tucks the tomato inside it. Elinor Oh, the fluff is getting away! hazel Nothing a little tape can’t fix. Hazel <SQUICKS> out more than a little TAPE and rapidly wraps it around the tomato to secure the fluffy padding. ELINOR All done! ANGLE ON: The real tomato is much more sparsely covered than the tomato in the thought bubble. ARI Farmer Bear! Can we try again? CUT TO Farmer Bear, as he overhears and heads over. This time Ari climbs the ladder, full of optimism. ARI (CONT’D) This time we’ve got the right stuff. Or should I say, the right fluff? Elinor and Hazel shake their heads at his groaner joke. Elinor / hazel (groan) Ari drops the fluff-covered tomato from the top of the ladder. But to their dismay - <SPLAT!> eLINOR Aww! It smooshed again! Not enough padding I guess. FARMER BEAR Sorry, kids. Better make your last tomato count! Farmer Bear departs, scribbling on his clipboard. ARI Well, that was a mess. Now what? Ari hops down from the ladder, spreading his wings to gently float down, in a slow, graceful glide. His wings billow as they ‘catch the air’. Elinor notices. ELINOR (surprised) Ari! You just jumped from the same height as that tomato, but you didn't get smooshed. Ari gives her a puzzled look. ARI Of course not. When I hold my wings out, they sort of 'catch the air' so I can float down slowly. Ari waves his wings, which ‘poofs’ up some dandelion fluff. Elinor watches the seeds descend too... very slowly. ELINOR Look! The dandelion seeds fall slowly too! CLOSER as a seed lands on her nose, and she goes cross-eyed. ELINOR (CONT’D) That’s SOOO interesting! I wonder makes the seed fall slowly like that? She removes the seed from her nose, and goes into her pack for her magnifying glass, to take a closer look. MAGNIFYING GLASS C.U. of the DANDELION SEED - the seed dangles below a very puffy top. ELINOR (OS) (CONT’D) There’s the seed... and it sure has a big, fluffy top. Elinor releases the seed, and they all watch how it falls. EXTREME C.U. Of the seed, as the little fluffy fibres ‘catch the air’ and slow the seed’s descent, with little "air" wiggly lines "catching" on the bottom of the puffy part.. hazel (os) Look how the fluff catches the air! ELINOR Yes... kind of like how Ari’s wings do. So maybe ‘catching the air’ is what helps things fall slowly? ari I wish our tomato could fall slowly. Then it wouldn’t splat. Elinor turns to her friends, eyes bright with an idea. ELINOR Maybe it can! We just need to find something we can use, to help it catch the air! (beat, determined) We need more observations. As she rallies her friends OS, we TRANSITION TO: 6. EXT. PARK - A ‘SONG MOMENT’ Elinor leads her friends in a spontaneous song about things that ‘catch the air’ as they explore the immediate area, collecting small, natural items to test. ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI (sing) Let's look low and high, For things that we can try. Look over here, and over there, For things that catch the air, Check on the ground, see all around Look at what I found! Let's look high and low, For things that fall real slow Look over here, and over there, For things that catch the air! (As they sing and explore, they collect a PINECONE, an OAK LEAF, a TWIG and a FEATHER.) 7. EXT. TOMATO DROP AREA - CONTINUOUS They hurry back to the base of their ladder, with the items they’ve gathered. ELINOR We found some great things! Now, let’s see how they fall. Ari flies up the ladder, and Elinor hands him the pinecone. Ari drops it - it plummets quickly, straight down. <THUMP!>. ELINOR / hazel / ari (unison) Fast! Hazel puts the pinecone off to one side, deliberately. HAZEL. I’ll start a ‘fell fast’ pile. Next, Elinor hands Ari the big, flat oak leaf to drop. He releases it - CLOSE - As it falls, the leaf edges visibly flutter. ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI (os) Slowww! eLINOR See how it catches the air? That goes in the ‘fell slow’ pile. She places the leaf a short distance away from the pinecone. Next, Ari drops the twig, which plummets quickly. <THUMP!> ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI Fast! Hazel puts the twig with the pinecone. Ari drops the feather. CLOSE - the feather falls slowly, its downy edges fluttering. ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI (os) (CONT’D) Slowww! Elinor puts the feather with the leaf in the ‘slow’ pile. ELINOR So we have two things that catch the air and fall slowly. (Ari glides down from the ladder to join the ‘slow’ pile.) ARI Three, if you count me. ELINOR (laugh) Well, let’s see if these can help our tomato catch the air! Hazel hands Elinor the tape, and Elinor tapes the feather and leaf to the sides of the last tomato. (Vertically, so they won’t ‘catch the air’ very well.) HAZEL And I’ll get ready to catch the tomato , just in case. Hazel crouches, ready to catch. Elinor holds up the tomato. ELINOR Ready? Hazel nods - Elinor lets go. It falls fast! Hazel catches it. ARI Whoa! It still fell fast. Why didn’t it catch the air? ELINOR Yeah! What is it about Ari, the leaf and the feather, that lets them catch the air? Elinor takes the leaf and feather off the tomato, and holds them up. Hazel uses her trunk to feel the feather. Suddenly - HAZEL Ah... AH... AH- CHOO!!! CUT TO Elinor, watching the leaf and feather float down in front of her. Suddenly, she has a brainstorm! ELINOR I’ve got it! It’s their shape that lets them catch the air! She catches the leaf and feather, and holds them horizontally to show her friends. ARI Oh yeah! Like my wings, when I fly! Ari spreads his wings and leans over. ELINOR So... to help our tomato fall slowly, we need to attach something that will catch the air. Suddenly, Hazel has a flash of an idea. HAZEL I have an idea!! She runs off and returns immediately with the big, square, silky SCARF she admired at the top of the show. HazeL. This scarf! Look!! Hazel throws the scarf up into the air and they watch as it “catches the air”. Elinor/ ARI Ohhhhh! ELINOR Good work! That should work perfectly, Hazel! ArI All we have to do it attach it to the tomato. Just then - FARMER BEAR (calls) Five minutes left, Tomato Droppers! eLINOR I have an idea! Get the string! Ari dives into his backpack and tosses them a roll of twine. ELINOR (CONT’D) We can attach the scarf to the tomato, like a parachute! At lightning speed, Hazel cuts lengths of string, and Ari and Elinor tie each string to a corner of the scarf. But when Hazel grabs the tape, all that’s left is a nub. HAZEL Oh, no. We’re out of tape! How can we attach the tomato? Elinor holds the loose strings of her parachute, stumped. Suddenly, Ari brightens. He digs out his bagel, from earlier. ARI Bagel? HAZEL (incredulous) Ari, this is no time for a snack! But Elinor seizes the bagel, inspired. ELINOR Oh, yes it is! Elinor ties the four strings to the (half?) bagel, like a horizontal tire swing. Then, she sits the tomato on the hole! 8. EXT. another ladder - continuous Farmer Bear watches while the young Beaver drops a POPSICLE-STICK ‘TOMATO CASE’ - it breaks on impact. <SPLAT!> FARMER BEAR Aww. Good effort. Ari frantically beckons. ARI (Part o.S.) Farmer Bear! We have one more try! The Farmer hustles over to watch their last attempt. Elinor climbs the ladder with their tomato parachute... ...while Ari and Hazel worry up a storm. ARI (CONT’D) Ohhh, I can't watch! Ari covers his face like a vampire - but peeks anyway. BACK ON Elinor, dangling the tomato by its parachute. ELINOR Here goes. 3, 2, 1... DROP! She releases it - and the chute <POOFS> open! We FOLLOW the tomato-chute as it floats down slowly, landing the tomato safely on the grass, still nestled atop its bagel carrier. Elinor / HAZEL / ARI / LambS / beaver (wild cheers and ‘it worked!’) FARMER BEAR Congratulations! And here comes Mr. Tomato, with your tasty prize... ANGLE ON the ‘tomato-head’ mascot, bringing a box for them. ARI (excited) Ooh , let me guess! Is it... a pineapple? REVEAL their prize - naturally, it’s a box of TOMATOES! eLINOR / HAZEL / arI (laughs) As they gather around Mr. Tomato and pose for a picture - ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI (CONT’D) (like saying ‘cheese’) Tomatooooo! <CAMERA FLASH!> - we FREEZE FRAME on the photo, and... FADE OUT.

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ELINOR'S TOWN EP . #110 “The Tomato Drop” By: Karen Moonah Elinor's Question: What makes some things fall slowly? Logline: Elinor and friends build a parachute to help a tomato ‘catch the air’ and fall more slowly when dropped. LS2 . Understand that animals have different body parts that are used in different ways to meet their needs, and that plants have different parts that help them survive and grow: Elinor will notice how Ari's wings help him glide slowly to the ground, and that the shapes of the dandelion fluff, leaf and feather help them fall more slowly. ND3 . ( RTL Crosscutting concept 'Structure and Function'): Understand that structures and materials in the natural world can be used or can inspire the engineering of structures with similar function in the designed world. Elinor and her friends will design a little parachute to "catch the air" the way they have observed Ari's wings, the dandelion fluff, the leaf and the feather all do. SEP 1. Asking Questions. d.) Identify a problem (how to drop a tomato without damaging it) that can be solved by the design of a new or improved object or tool. SEP 3. Planning and carrying out investigations. b.) Compare and contrast objects and events by describing similarities and differences in detail. Elinor and her friends will drop items through the air and compare the speed of their descent, to find out what causes some objects to fall slowly and apply that to their problem. OUTLINE: 14-DEC-2018 FIRST DRAFT: 17-JAN-2019 FARMER BEAR Mrs. Mrs. mole Hazel. Hazel Ari elinor Crowd Tomato mascot L ELINOR / hazel / ari Elinor / hazel ELINOR / HAZEL / ARI / farmer bear / lambs Lamb 1, 2, 3 / beaver LamB 1, 2, 3 / BEAVER / farmer bear / hazel / ari / elinor HAZEL / ARI HAZEL / elinor eLINOR / HAZEL /a ELINORh (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) (to herself) (muffled) INT EXT I/E A SOUVENIR STAND DROP LADDER BEAVERS' PRACTICE AREA DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY MINUTES LATER CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. ‘fluff’ wipe to: