1. EXT. RIVER BEHIND SCHOOL - DAY Elinor, Olive and Ari are stooping over the river bank with other kids playing nearby. We look over their shoulders and see a salmon whipping its way over some small rocks in shallow water. ARI Wow that fish is so jumpy! ElINOR It’s sure swimming fast. I wonder where it’s going. We hear MZ. MOLE, who joined the kids unnoticed. MZ. MOLE (O.S.) That fish is on her way to lay her eggs up the river , which means against the flow of the water . Pull out to see Mz. Mole standing over the kids shoulder, the fish already on it’s way, leaping in the background. OLIVE Fish lay eggs..? ARI But Won’t the eggs just wash down this fast river? Mz. Mole sits down on a rock by the riverbed and brings out a pop-up book. The other children have taken notice and gather around. MZ. MOLE Very good reasoning, Ari! Momma fish has to find a safer spot where the water is much slower. Let’s have a look.. Mz. Mole opens the book 2. EXT POOL IN A RIVER (BOOK) -- DAY Top-down view on tiny, slightly luminescent, pinkish pearls of salmon roe, scattered all over and among pebbles at the bottom of a river pool. MZ. MOLE Some fish start life as tiny eggs. To keep them safe, the mother fish swims far up river to find a calm pool of water to lay her eggs. Close up on one of the eggs, which hatches into a baby salmon: just a giant pair of eyes with a hint of a transparent fish body. It wiggles its tail. <SFX: KIDS AWWWW> Olive (O.S.) It’s so small! Elinor (o.S.) Can that little fish swim up the fast river?? MZ. MOLE (O.S.) Not until it gets bigger and stronger! Tiny hatchlings drift downstream with the current. Close up on our hero fish as she gradually grows larger, developing into an adult size and shape . MZ. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D) The baby fish are carried down stream by the river, and eventually go out to sea. Hero fish swims in the deep ocean. She’s bigger now. She swims impressively, dashing back and forth, and then leaping out of the water! ARI (o.S.) Woah , nice moves! OLIVE (O.S.) She looks so strong! MZ. MOLE (O.S.) Nice observation! In the ocean, fish grow big and strong. She’s so strong, that now she can swim UP stream, against the current, when it’s time to lay her eggs. Our big and grown hero fish makes her way up the river, against the current. MZ. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D) They use their powerful bodies to swim up tricky parts of the river, just like you saw that fish doing. BACK ON: the river, the kids, and Mz. Mole. A fish powerfully leaps over a log in the background! BACK ON: the storybook, we see an imposing dam blocking the river. ELINOR But Mz. Mole! There’s something blocking the river! How can the fish swim upstream now ? MZ. MOLE Good observation! People built a dam, which blocks the river. Fish can jump very high but not that high! Storybook shows a view looking upstream as an imposing dam blocks the river. Step by step, a fish ladder appears as pools going the long way around the dam. MZ. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D) But, while people build dams to block rivers, people also can build “fish ladders” to help the fish get over the dam. Hero fish looks at the imposing dam, then at the fish ladder, and then back at the dam. She chooses fish ladder. She leaps from pool to pool, progressing up and around the dam. MZ. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D) Nice choice, fishy friend! She can’t jump as high as the dam, but she can jump as high as each step in the ladder, and, step by step, travel up and over the dam... to the same calm pool where she was born . Exhausted hero fish dives into her home pool and relaxes. Ms. Mole closes the book. Suddenly <SFX: SPLASH>. The kids get splashed and <SFX: LAUGH> ANGLE ON: The salmon rests in a pool upstream ELINOR Our fish made it too! Welcome home, fishy friend. THE END

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY 119 Interstitial: MZ. Mole Story time: FISH LADDERS Written by Robert David Tom Kalinowski Follows " EWW138 Water You Doing?" Curriculum: Elinor and her friends learn about a "fish ladder" that help a salmon up the river that is blocked by a dam. LS4 . Understand that all animals and plants have a life cycle, can reproduce, and change and grow over time. ES3 . Understand that things people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them, but they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things: FIRST DRAFT: 04-July-19 SECOND DRAFT: 26-July-19 ELINOR ARI OLIVE MZ. MOLE ELINOR, ARI, and OLIVE (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E 1 E EXT. RIVER BEHIND SCHOOL DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY MAGIC HOUR DAWN DUSK SAME SAME TIME CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. SMASH CUT TO: CUT TO BLACK. TIME CUT: Order Title Location CHARACTER CHARACTER'S ARC