1. EXT PARK -- DAY Open on SENOR TAPIR, ARI , and OLIVE sitting on a log. ARI spots ELINOR as she runs over to them and waves at her. ARI Hi, Elinor! ELINOR Hi--whoops ! ELINOR trips (gently) on a tree root (she doesn’t fall). Her curiosity prevails. Elinor (CONT’D) I've never seen th is kind of tree before! How INTERESTING! I wonder what it is? SENOR TAPIR (chuckling) You remind me of another curious explorer who loved plants more than anything. Her name was Ynes Mexia . Senor Tapir starts to strum his guitar and sings. We TRANSITION to a simpler style of animation that describes what he is singing. 2. EXT. MOUNTAIN TRAIL -- DAY CLOSE UP: on Ynes Mexia ( ee-NEZ Meh-HEE-uh ) as she studies a plant and writes in her notebook. SENOR TAPIR Ynes Mexia Took every chance To go and explore And look for new plants ZOOM OUT: to see that the plant she's studying is growing in a wild and dangerous location. (Settings that might work: growing on the bank of a rushing river, or at the top of a waterfall, or on a very steep cliff face.) One day she heard of A really tall tree She went to find it Out of curiosity ZOOM IN ON: Mexia's notebook, with a sketch of the legendary Wax Palm growing in the mountains. The tallest of palm trees It likes mountain air To find where it grows She had to climb way up there Mexia and her guides start up the trail, which zig-zags up the mountain. Ynes Mexia Took every chance To go and explore And look for new plants! Time passes and different weather conditions roll through: rain and thunder, gusting winds, intense sun. Mexia leads the group through it all, even when the trail disappears. Hiking through storms And wind and sun She got a bit lost But still had fun Ynes Mexia and her group reach the Wax Palm. It’s huge! They celebrate, and she sketches it in her notebook. “At last” she said when she first saw the tree Two hundred feet high As tall as she could see CLOSE UP: on Mexia as an idea occurs to her. She bends down (out of frame) and pops back up holding a sprig of wax palm seeds (fruit). She wanted to have this tree back at home so she took some seeds to grow her own ZOOM OUT: The group happily makes their way back down the mountain. [ chorus ] Ynes Mexia Took every chance To go and explore And look for new plants TRANSITION TO: 3. EXT PARK -- DAY Back in the park, SENOR TAPIR looks up from his guitar to see ELINOR busily sketching. She holds up her drawing of the strange tree she tripped over. The parts are labeled, as in Mexia's drawings. ELINOR Look! I'm going to start a notebook with pictures of all the new plants I can find! The children scatter. SENOR TAPIR follows them SENOR TAPIR (chuckling) Be careful! No running!

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EWW INTERSTITIAL 113: SENOR TAPIR Ynes Mexia and the Wax Palm Written by MEG ROSENBURG FOLLOWS: "BACKYARD SOUP" CONNECTION: Different plants grow in different environments. CURRICULUM: Elinor see Ari , Olive, and Senor Tapir in the forest and runs to meet them, tripping over a strange tree root. Oooh — she's never seen that tree before! Senor Tapir praises her mettle, which reminds him of another undaunted nature adventurer, Ynes Mexia . In the song that he strikes up, the verses recount her quest to the Andes Mountains to find and bring back a rare, beautiful palm tree, while the chorus describes more broadly how she fell in love with collecting plants and found a new inner strength — and a new calling — in the great outdoors. At the end of the song, the kids decide to look for more "new" plants that they've never noticed before. In 1934, botanist Ynes Mexia sets out on her own to collect a sample of a beautiful and hardy palm tree that only grows in the remote and cold high Andes Mountains. Over her career, she personally collected ~150,000 plant samples, among them ~500 new species and two new genera. LS1: Understand that all living things have external parts B. Record observations about a plant’s physical appearance 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 second DRAFT: 5/16/2019 SE SENOR TAPIR (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.