1. EXT. CLUBHOUSE ON A HILL (WIDE) – DAY Open on a pretty, green, summer glade. We hear indistinct children's chatter. ElINOR, Olive, Sally (laughter) Elinor (not quite audible) Sally, I'm so glad you're joining our club! IN ON: a big cardboard box “clubhouse” with cut-out windows, perched on a very small hill. Now we hear voices coming from inside the box more clearly, and we can see ELINOR, OLIVE and SALLY BEAVER through the window. We can also see TWO CUTE SNAILS (One bigger and one smaller) perched on the window sill. Elinor (CONT'D) Ready? THROUGH THE WINDOW: Elinor and Olive start the Explorers Pledge (complete with hand gestures). ELINOR AND Olive An Explorer is brave! They put their hands on their hips. Sally Beaver follows along repeating the words and the gestures SALLY An explorer is brave! ELINOR AND Olive An Explorer is kind! Elinor and Olive put their hands over their hearts. Sally An Explorer is kind. Suddenly we hear someone approaching! Ari (V.O.) (whistling the theme song) It’s ARI, strolling towards the clubhouse as the voices continue. ELINOR AND OLIVE An Explorer is CURIOUS! THROUGH THE WINDOW: Elinor and Olive put their hands to their brows, looking. At the same moment, OUTSIDE Ari DOES see something that stops him in his tracks. He takes a moment to check out the snails on the windowsill. ArI Oooooh . Sally An Explorer is CURIOUS! Ari is roused from his reverie and keeps going. 2. INT. CLUBHOUSE -- DAY Elinor, Olive and Sally say the last line together, arms wide out in joyous wonder. ( ala Julie Andrews in Sound of Music but without the spinning). Elinor, Olive and Sally WHO KNOWS WHAT WE’LL FIND!!! Ari bursts into the box. Ari Sorry I’m late, Explorers! What did I miss? ElINOR (proudly) Hi, Explorer Ari! We’ve just been welcoming the newest member of our Club – Explorer Sally Beaver! ARI A new member! Awesome! Welcome Explorer Sally! SaLLY Thanks for letting me be part of the exploring club. Elinor Of course! Anyone can join the Exploring Club! Olive Yeah, all you have to do is love EXPLORING. Ari Our number one rule is... Elinor/Olive/Ari Exploring is for everyone! As they say this, they spread their arms (and wings) wide, causing them to crowd each other out in a funny way. Elinor/Olive Hey!/Whoa! ARI Whoops, sorry! OLIVE I guess there’s less room in the clubhouse now that we have... (points to each member as she counts silently, then herself) ...four members! ELINOR OKAY, Explorers! Let’s go OUTSIDE and start EXPLORING! Elinor antics to exit the door, but Ari interrupts her. ArI Wait! I have something we can explore ...INSIDE the Clubhouse! ElINOR (interested) Really? What is it, Explorer Ari? ARI Ta-DAH ! Ari proudly gestures to the windowsill. ANGLE ON: Two nice snails crawling along the window ledge. NOTE: One snail (Lou-Lou) is bigger than the other (Norma). ELINOR <GASP!> Snails! OLIVE/sally Ooooh .../Whoa... Elinor, Olive and Sally join Ari at the windowsill admiring the snails. ARI Meet Norma and Lou-Lou. I named them after my Aunties . Elinor and Olive share a quizzical glance. Ari (CONT’D) They look just like them. Elinor/Olive (giggle) The Explorers take a minute to look closely at their new friends. SCIENCE MOMENT CU: ELINOR Wow, look at their little antennae. The Snails wiggle their antennae to demo. The Explorers watch for a beat or two as the snails crawl slowly along. ARI Yup , there they go...(beat)...still going... It goes on just long enough to be funny. Olive (giggle) They sure don’t move very fast. ARI <GASP!> Wait a minute, I have a great idea! Norma and Lou-Lou can be our Exploring Club MASCOTS! ELINOR, Olive, SALLY Ooooh / Cool!/ Huh? This is a new word for Sally. SallY Uh... what’s a mac-sot ? ARI Mascot! It’s like a pet... for the whole CLUB!! SALLY Oh, I LOVE pets. Olive And Norma and Lou-Lou will make perfect club mascots! They don't take up much room! Olive draws a picture of a snail in the club journal. ELINOR Okay! Now that we have mascots, it’s time to go EXPLORING! This time, Elinor gets a little bit further out the door before... Olive Wait, Explorer Elinor! We have one more thing to do. (Checks the journal) Clean the Clubhouse! ELINOR Oh, right! Thank you Explorer Olive. Our Clubhouse gives us shelter and a place to plan our adventures. So Explorers MUST take care of the Clubhouse before they EXPLORE! Elinor, Ari, Olive and Sally tidy up, picking up some papers and crayons and stacking them in the corner, straightening a map on the wall, hanging up the magnifying glass - that kind of thing. Elinor does an especially speedy job to get going. ELINOR (CONT’D) Okay! We cleaned up, we have mascots, and now...It’s finally time to go EXPLOR- ...! Elinor runs out the door. 3 . Ext. small hill -- continuous Elinor takes a few steps outside before she runs up against KAO WOMBAT. ELINOR ...RING...whoops . Kao Hey, Elinor! What are you guys doing? ari Oh, hi, Kao ! We’re having a meeting of the Exploring Club! Wanna join? KAO Sure! At that moment TITO MOUSE also walks up. Tito Can I join too? Olive Sure, Tito , come on in! The Exploring Club is for everybody! Elinor looks back and forth between the great outdoors and her friends. elinor (sighs with a smile) That’s the Explorer Way! All the kids walk into the Clubhouse. 4. Int. Clubhouse -- continuous The Clubhouse is getting pretty crowded and as everyone settles into place, Kao notices Norma and Lou-Lou. KAO Oooh , nice snails. And we take another look at the snails in CU: happily crawling along the windowsill. ArI (proudly) They’re our Club mascots! ELINOR (good naturedly ) And they’re the only ones who have done any exploring today. Olive Don’t worry Elinor, we’ll ALL go exploring, right after we teach Kao and Tito the Exploring Club Pledge. Elinor leads, with gestures: ELINOR Okay, everybody!! Repeat after me! An Explorer is brave! OLIVE, ari, sally, Kao , tito An Explorer is BRAVE!! Suddenly, CAMILLA DROMEDARY pokes her head in the window. Camilla Explorer?? Did you say Explorer? I LOVE exploring! ari Then join our club! Camilla Don’t mind if I do! It takes some doing as she squeezes inside. They can all barely fit! ELINOR Hoookey , let’s start the club pledge... Suddenly the GOAT TWINS poke their noses in the door. Goat twins (in unison) Any room for us? ELINOR Uh, sure... Olive The Exploring Club Club is for everybody! They squeeze inside, now there’s REALLY no room. ElINOR Okay, time to start the... Olive Whoops, I dropped my crayon! She ducks down trying to retrieve it with her trunk (which moves like a hand, patting and searching), causing the whole group to squirm and squish. ANGLE ON: her hand fishing for the crayon as we see a grouping of feet all shuffling as the crayon is accidentally kicked around - finally... Olive (CONT’D) Got it! Olive stands up triumphant. Suddenly <SFX: Crunch, crunch, crunch> KAO (mouth full) Anybody want some crackers? ELINOR, ari, Olive, sally (ad lib) Sure!/I’ll have some/Pass them over!!/ Me too! More general shifting as the crackers are shared. elinor Okay, Explorers, let’s get this pledge started so we can all go exploring! An explorer is… Just that moment Ari ( squished in the far corner beside the window) calls out. ARI (calling out) Wait! Has anybody seen Norma and Lou-Lou?! They were just here a second ago. ELINOR, Olive, sally (ad lib ) Nope/ Sorry/ They’re not over here. 5. EXT. SMALL HILL -- CONTINUOUS Ari sticks his head out the window and calls. Norma and Lou-Lou are crawling on the ext wall just above the window (in the same shot). ArI Norma!! Lou-Lou!! (looking around) NORMAAAA !! LOU-LOU!!!!!!! The Clubhouse starts to tilt as Ari’s gestures destabilize it. (Possibly one or two more characters stick their heads out the window, and at the same time see Norma and Lou-lou crawl into the window - so they are safe on the inside - Ari doesn't notice.) ArI (CONT’D) Wha-oh ! It tips over and the entire Clubhouse comically tumbles and rolls down the (small) hill. ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI, sally, Kao , Goat twins (laughing) WHOOOAAAW , WHOOOOAAAAAW , WHOOAAAAAA 6. EXT. BOTTOM OF THE HILL -- DAY The Clubhouse tumbles to a halt at the bottom of the small hill. The kids all spill out, giggling. Tito Whoa, that was cool! Goat TWINS (together) Oh my! Olive picks herself up first. Olive (laughing, looking at the clubhouse) I think we have a Clubhouse problem. ELINOR Yeah! (Dusts herself off) The club got bigger, but the Clubhouse stayed the same size! ANGLE ON: Meanwhile Ari, who landed a little ways away, picks himself up. He remembers that the snails are missing. ArI Norma! Lou-Lou! Where are youoooo ? BACK ON: Elinor and Olive are looking at the tumbled Clubhouse. OLIVE What are we going to do? ELINOR Hmmm ... Olive I wonder if we should get a bigger box? ELINOR That would work... THOUGHT BUBBLE forms next to Elinor, in which a brand new (and bigger) box is their shiny new clubhouse. Everyone fits inside! ELINOR (CONT’D) But what if MORE kids join the club? We’ll have to get a WHOLE new, even bigger Clubhouse! In the thought bubble, more and more kids join the club, eventually crowding the bigger box until the thought-bubble bursts. BACK ON: Ari, searching for Norma and Lou-Lou. ArI Norma! Lou-Lou! Now where did they go? Ari puts his hands on his hips and looks around. Suddenly, he realizes the snails are hanging out on his shoulder. ARI (CONT'D) (giggles) There you are! Silly snails. BACK ON: Elinor and Olive are still brainstorming. Olive What if we get another box and keep this one too? Then we can have TWO Clubhouses? ELINOR That could work. THOUGHT BUBBLE showing two clubhouses near each other. All the kids fit! ELINOR (CONT’D) But then, we wouldn’t all be together. In the thought bubble, we see the kids in both clubhouses having trouble communicating with the other clubhouse. OLIVE You’re right, Elinor...Explorers are a team and we need to stick together. ELINOR Yeah! Hmmm ... The THOUGHT BUBBLE bursts. BACK ON: Ari, who is within earshot of Elinor and Olive. He uses a leaf to gently take the little snails off his shoulder and puts them on a nearby rock. Ari Phew! There you go, Norma and Lou-lou . (he lays them down) It’s a good thing you had those shells to protect you when we rolled down the hill. It’s like you have your own little clubhouses, just like we do! This catches Elinor’s attention. She hops over to Ari, with Olive following. (NOTE: in the background we can see the other kids pushing the clubhouse upright.) ELINOR Did you say Norma and Lou-Lou have their own clubhouses? Ari Kind of! See, Norma has a little clubhouse on her back and Lou-Lou, who’s bigger, has a bigger clubhouse. The snails go into their shells, then peek out. Elinor looks closer at the snails. ARI (CONT’D) I guess when Norma grows up, she’ll need a bigger shell too. (after a beat) But, I wonder how she'll get a bigger shell? EliNOR Hmmm ... We need more observations! She runs past the other kids and into the clubhouse, emerging with the magnifying glass and the club journal. She looks at the snails with the magnifying glass. EliNOR (CONT’D) Let’s take a closer look... We track her MAGNIFIED VIEW as she goes back and forth between the two shells a few times (maybe pointing with a piece of grass). On close up, we see the number of loops each shell has, and that the larger shell has more lines (or rings) going outwards around the spiral. ELINOR (CONT’D) Look! Norma’s shell gets bigger by going around in a swirly shape. That is SO INTERESTING! (she traces her finger around the spiral as she counts) It goes around one, two, three times. Elinor turns her attention to Lou-Lou. ELINOR (CONT’D) But Lou-Lou’s shell goes around one, two, three, four, five, six rings - that’s a lot more. ANGLE ON: Olive makes a drawing of this in the journal, counting the rings as she draws. OLIVE One, two, three, four, five, six! The kids look at Olive’s drawing. Olive (CONT’D) The snail shell winds around, starting small and getting bigger with each swirl... THOUGHT BUBBLE next to Elinor, we see Lou-Lou as a little baby snail with a small shell consisting of one loop. As she grows and gets bigger, the shell spirals around and grows, ring by ring. ElINOR I think you're right! When Lou-Lou was a baby, she was probably little just like Norma. But as she got bigger Lou-Lou ADDED swirls to her shell to make it bigger too. Ari Whoa, that is so cool... THOUGHT BUBBLE bursts. ELINOR <GASP!> And that gives me an idea to solve our Clubhouse problem! We'll ADD on to our Clubhouse - just like Norma and Lou-Lou add on to their shells. She runs off screen. Ari and Olive look at each other and follow. We hear the beginning of a song. CROSSFADE TO: CLUB-BUILDING MONTAGE As the kids sing, we see Olive drawing up plans for expanding the existing clubhouse, with diagrams of the snails for inspiration (if it works). The kids discuss how they are going to build it. We see the other kids bringing in a colorful pile of random and whimsical building materials -- cardboard, snow saucers, sheets of colorful fabric and decorations - etc. Slowly they make the clubhouse bigger by expanding it. Elinor, Olive, Ari Room for everyone! Room for everyone! Everyone is welcome, ‘cause there’s room for everyone!! Elinor: We have a lot of friends, Olive: And a club that’s really fun, ARI: We have an awesome Clubhouse ELINOR: But we need a bigger one! OLIVE: We‘ll add more walls and windows. ARI: Like snails, we’ll get it done. (ANGLE ON: The Snails) ELINOR: Our Club keeps growing bigger, we need... ALL: ROOM FOR EVERYONE! Room for everyone! Room for everyone! We love to be Explorers cause there’s room for everyone!! END MONTAGE 7. Ext. Clubhouse - later Olive checks her plans. Olive I think we’ve got everything except the door on the roof! PAN UP TO REVEAL: The REAL Clubhouse and all the Explorers working on it. Through the door we see Kao sitting on Sally's shoulders. ANGLE ON: Kao pops through a door in the roof. Kao One roof door - DONE! Elinor looks on with satisfaction. ELINOR Now THAT’S a Clubhouse for EVERYONE! There's space for all of us to fit inside, and if we get even MORE members... Olive We have lots of extra stuff to build with to make the Clubhouse even bigger. ANGLE ON: Extra stuff. ELINOR Great! OLIVE (closing the journal) Well, now we can finally go exploring like you wanted, Elinor! ELINOR That’s OK. We did explore! Norma and Lou-Lou showed us how to add space to our clubhouse, so we learned something from Nature. And that’s what exploring is all about! Suddenly, Ari runs up in a panic. ArI Wait! I’ve lost Norma and Lou-Lou AGAIN!! A beat as he looks at his smiling friends and figures it out. ARI (CONT’D) Don’t tell me. They’re on my shoulder again, aren’t they? (covering) I knew that. Olive uses a leaf to put them gently on a rock ELINOR Explorers, are you ready? Olive, ari, sally, Kao , Tito , Camilla, GoatS READY!!! Elinor leads her friends(with gestures) as they march OS. ELINOR, Olive, ari, sally, Kao , Tito , Camilla, Goat Twins An Explorer is BRAVE, an Explorer is KIND!! An Explorer is CURIOUS!!! WHO KNOWS WHAT WE’LL FIND!! IRIS OUT, THE END. Segment 2: EXT PARK -- DAY Open on Senor Tapir, with his guitar, in the park of Animal Town, sitting on a tree stump at the edge of a pond. A group of kids sit at his feet, including Elinor and Sally Beaver. SENOR TAPIR Let’s sing a song about an EXPLORER. Who knows what an explorer does? Elinor’s hand shoots up. She doesn’t wait to be called on. ELINOR An explorer follows their curiosity! SALLY BEAVER An explorer is brave. SENOR TAPIR You’re both right! Explorers go to lots of very INTERESTING places, like deep into the ocean. Tapir starts to strum his guitar and sings. After a line or two, we transition to a simpler style of animation that describes what he is singing. SENOR TAPIR (CONT’D) When something you see, Tickles your curiosity When you have to know more And questions pull you out the door Let’s go! Let’s Explore! EXT OCEAN -- DAY We see a young Jacques Cousteau preparing to dive. SENOR TAPIR There was a young man named Jacques Cousteau , Who wanted to know what nobody knows Young Jacques loved to swim in the sea So he followed his curiosity. Jacques dives in! He swims down but soon runs out of air. He wondered if anything lived far below But that’s a place that’s hard to go Wading on the surface, he has an idea! So he had an idea to breathe under water So he could explore deeper and farther We see Jacques again on his boat, this time with his prototype scuba gear, diving into the water. Jacques found all sorts of life down deep! Fish and plants and coral reefs. Jacques sees some cool underwater life. Under the water, among fishes and plants, he takes out his film camera. An explorer now, swimming under the sea He shared what he saw with you and me When something you see, Tickles your curiosity When you have to know more And questions pull you out the door Let’s go! Let’s Explore! EXT PARK -- DAY Kids “That was great” / “We want another song” SENOR TAPIR That song made me want to go swimming! Adios amigos ! Tapir tosses his guitar on the grass and dives under the water. THE END.

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ELINOR’S TOWN EP 101A The Amazing Expandable Clubhouse By: Katherine Sandford Elinor’s Question: How does a snail always seem to fit even when the snail grows bigger? Logline: Elinor and her friends run into trouble when so many kids join their club that there’s no more room in the Clubhouse. Curriculum Goals: SEP1 . Asking questions and defining problems. (Elinor wonders how to make her clubhouse bigger) SEP3 . Planning and carrying out investigations (Elinor decides to observe the snail for clues as to how to solve her problem) SEP4 . Analyzing and interpreting data (Elinor compare the two snail shells and figures out, by observing their structures, that one is bigger than the other and how this may have happened.) SEP5 . Using mathematics and computational thinking (Elinor observes the structure of the snails shell gets bigger by counting the rings) SEP: Design solutions (engineering) (Elinor and her friends design an addition to the Clubhouse) LS4 . Understand that all animals and plants have a life cycle, can reproduce, and change and grow over time (Elinor notices that one older snail is bigger than the younger one) 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 realizes that she can use the same technique to expand her clubhouse as she observed in the snails' shells)). ENGINEERING GOALS: Begin to use the five elements of the Engineering Design Process: Define a problem, Imagine and Plan, Create, Test, and Improve• Begin to understand that engineering is a collaborative process during which ideas can be exchanged and shared with others while defining a problem and working to design, test and revise a solution Main Characters: Elinor, Olive, Ari, Sally, Kai Secondary Characters: Camilla, Goat Twins (in unison), Tito Incidental Characters: Norma, LouLou Backgrounds: Top of the hill, Inside the Clubhouse, bottom of the hill Props: Clubhouse journal, crayon, crackers, leaf, magnifying glass, Clubhouse, building materials OUTLINE: November 23, 2018 FIRST DRAFT: December 17, 2018 SECOND DRAFT: January 2, 2019 POLISH DRAFT: January 11, 2019 RECORD DRAFT: August 6, 2019 Elinor/hazel elinor Ari hazel (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) Int Ext I/E Day Night Afternoon Morning Evening Later Moments Later Continuous The Next Day Cut To: Fade In: Fade Out. Fade To: Dissolve To: Back To: Match Cut To: Jump Cut To: Fade To Black.