1. EXT. THE FOREST - DAY It’s another beautiful day of fun possibilities in Animal Town. ELINOR, ARI and OLIVE are walking along in the forest. OPEN ON: Elinor, confidently leading the pack. ELINOR Hands up if you want to go EXPLORING! Elinor slightly ahead, while Ari is running around near her, bouncing off of rocks and logs. Olive is slightly behind, curiously examining things low on the ground. Ari (raising his hand) Yeah, I love to explore! It means I get to run and jump and... ON: Ari tries to do a little forest parkour <SFX: HUP ! YAH!> , ending on a flip, but loses a bit of momentum and falls flat on his bottom. ArI (CONT’D) Oof ! Uh... (trying to recover) Sit on the ground and rest! He stretches out in a forced relaxed pose, as if that was his intention all along. Elinor <SFX: GIGGLES>. ARI (CONT’D) Okay, that’s enough realxing . (Ari gets up and dusts himself off) Ok , Elinor, where should we go explore? Elinor looks out over yonder and spots something she likes: ANGLE ON: a tall tree atop a nearby little hill. ELINOR Hmmm ... let’s see... Ooh , how about that big tree on that hill? Ari Yeah! I don’t think we’ve played in that tree before. He hops on a rock and hangs on a nearby tree branch <SFX: HUP!> , striking a “let’s go” pose. Ari (CONT’D) Come on, Olive. We’re going to explore that big tree over there. Olive is down on the ground, staring at something. Olive Wait a second. Look at this. Elinor and Ari run over to Olive. Ari Cool! Ants! They peer over Olive’s shoulder to see some ants walking near a small puddle. We see a line of ants walking towards the puddle, and then pan to the other side of the puddle where the line continues. Olive Yeah. Look, they’re trying to get from one side of this puddle to the other side. But because they can’t swim, they walk around this way... Olive gets up and follows the trail of ants: the ants veer to one side and go along the edge of the puddle, over a small rock, then climb on a large fallen leaf that connects to a stick in the puddle that takes them safely to the other side. The ants then resume their trail. Olive (CONT’D) ... then they climb up this rock and leaf and onto this stick, and that gets them to the other side. Ari Cool. A stick bridge. ElinOR Ants are so clever. Olive Yup. They always find a way to get to where they’re going. ElINOR And speaking of going ... let’s get going to that tree. Ari looks at the ants and in the direction towards the tree on the hill. ari Hey, I have an idea. Let’s pretend to be ants! Elinor and Olive look at Ari, puzzled. ELINOR What do you mean? Ari points to a series of rocks, stumps and fallen logs ahead in the forest. ( NOTE : All of them are quite low to the ground, so they aren’t dangerous for the kids to walk on.) Ari Let’s see if we can get to the tree on that hill without walking on the ground. Just like the ants walked on that stick to cross the puddle. Like this. He steps up on a log and puts his arms out to balance, then hops to a nearby low rock. olive That’s fun! I wonder how long we can go without touching the ground. Ari flaps his wings and lifts of the ground. ArI Yeah, I wonder... Elinor and Olive <GIGGLE> and shake their heads. ELINOR ( giggle ) No, flying doesn’t count. He smiles and returns to the ground. ARI Just kidding. Elinor hops onto a fallen log, following Olive. Then Ari hops back on and follows them. They <GIGGLE> and make <WOAH> sounds etc, as they try to maintain their balance. When Olive gets to the end of the log, she looks around for what to walk on next. She spots a series of rocks and hops onto the first, then steps onto the next. Elinor and Ari follow. 2. EXT. fishy pool - momENTS LATER Olive hops onto a rock and looks SURPRISED. She stops and puts her arms out to maintain her balance. <SFX: WHOOA WALLA> Elinor and Ari come up behind her and bump into Olive. The three of them comically hold on to each other as they squeeze in trying to stay on the rock. They peer around them and see there isn’t anywhere to step onto next. Olive Uh oh, I think we ran out of places to step on. Elinor looks at her friends and they exchange smiles. Elinor Ready? One... Two... Elinor/oLIVE/ARI ...Three! The three jump off the rock at the same time, tumbling and rolling on the ground <SFX: GIGGLING and LAUGHING>. Ari Haha , that was fun. olive Well, we almost made it to the tree. Just beyond is the big tree. Gazing at it, Elinor gets up and charges ahead. elinor I guess we’ll have to run the rest of the way on the ground. Let’s go EXPLORE- Whoops! Elinor stops just before stepping into a stream that separates them from the tree, just off the other side. Right where they are, the stream widens into a small pool. Olive Hmmm . We can’t walk on water. Ari flaps his wings again and lifts off the ground. ARI Have no fear, Ari Airplane to the rescue! Ari hovers over Elinor, who grabs his feet. Ari flaps mightily up and towards the stream, but Elinor doesn’t quite take off. Ari (CONT’D) <PHEW!> I’m not sure this is going to work. Elinor <GIGGLES> Well, it was a nice idea. Elinor steps on a rock beside Olive at the stream’s edge and ponders their conundrum. ElinOR (CONT’D) Hmmm , I wonder how we can get across..? ANGLE: A LITTLE FISH jumps out of the water and splashes back into it! ari Woah! Did you see that little fish? Ari and Olive look into the water, and see the little fish, which is looking up at them, opening and closing its mouth. ARI (CONT’D) Hello, little fishy! You look pretty happy. They wave at the fishy. olive It must be nice to have your own swimming pool. Ari Any ideas how we can get across, little fishy? Elinor has an idea. Elinor I know! Let’s be like the ants again! Olive and Ari look at each other. OliVE What do you mean, Elinor? ELINOR I mean, the ants didn’t give up and turn around when they got to the puddle. They found a way! She points upstream. elinor (CONT’D) The stream isn’t as wide up there. Maybe it’ll be easier to cross. C’mon ! Ari and Olive follow her upstream. Ari stops and calls back. Ari Bye little fishy! We’ll come back and tell you all about that tree. 3. EXT. upstream narrows - moments later They arrive at a narrower part of the stream. ElinoR See? It’s not as wide, so it’s not as far to the other side. Maybe we can get across here without getting wet. Olive looks hesitant. Olive Hmmm , I don’t know. I don’t think I can jump that far. Elinor We need more ideas. Olive That’s why I always carry my notebook. My mom says it always helps to draw what you want to do. Olive gets out her notebook and crayons from her backpack. She draws the two edges of the stream, and some little waves in between. Then she draws stick figures of the three of them on one side. OLIVE (CONT’D) Let’s see. This is the stream. And this is us on one side. ELINOR And we want to get to the big tree on the other side, but it’s too far to jump. ARI I know! Maybe you could use a long stick to jump across? Ari gets a thought bubble over his head of Olive pole vaulting over the stream ! Olive looks at Ari with surprise. Olive ( giggle ) I don’t think I can jump that high, Ari. His THOUGHT BUBBLE POPS. Elinor What else could we use around here? Elinor and Ari look around. He’s standing on a rock. Ari All I see is rocks. Elinor’s face lights up. ELINOR Rocks! That’s it! ARI What’s it? ELINOR Remember when we were pretending to be ants, and we walked on things instead of on the ground? What if we put some big rocks in the water? Olive draws two big rocks in the water, making a walkway, and draws a double-arch arrow showing how they would hop across. Olive Then we could walk on the rocks to get across. Ari Awesome idea! Let’s do it! The three of them gather around the rock Ari was on. Elinor Ready? Olive/ari Ready! They push the rock, <EFFORT SOUNDS>, causing it to roll toward the stream. Then <PLUNK> it drops into the stream and rolls once, so it’s touching the other bank. OlivE Perfect! Now, just one more rock like that, and we can walk across. They get behind another big rock, and roll it toward the stream. <EFFORT SOUNDS>. It drops <PLUNK> into the water. One side of the rock is touching the other rock and the other side of the rock is touching the bank in front of them. So they’ve effectively created a walkway (and a dam). ElinoR Yay! We built our own path. Olive Well, let’s see if it works. They hop across on the rocks and land on the other side. Then they high-five each other. ARI We did it! ElINOR We found a way, just like the ants! Now we can go explore that tree. They all start running towards a big tree in the distance. As they leave, the camera moves to the spot where they put the rocks in the water. There’s a little water coming between the two rocks, but a significant amount of water is being diverted by the rocks and is spilling onto to the other bank of the stream. A TWIG floats downstream toward the rocks, but instead of continuing toward the fishy’s pool, it flows with the diverted water and lands on the other bank, where a puddle is forming. 4. EXT. THE tree at the top of the small hill – later on In a quick montage with music, we show the kids having fun at the tree. They run around the tree, explore the branches, look at the bark, wave at each other with leaves that they pick up, and find small nuts on the ground. 5. EXT. THE other side of the stream – later on Elinor, Ari and Olive are walking on the far side of the stream, retracing the route they took earlier. They’ve brought some leaves and nuts back with them. olive It was a great idea to go to that tree. elinor There was so much to explore. Those big leaves made it nice and shady. And I’ve never seen this kind of nut before. Ari Hey, let’s go show our fishy friend what we found. 6. EXT. upstream narrows - momENTS LATER The three arrive at their walkway, but as they get close to it, we hear <SQUISH> and Elinor makes a face. ELINOR Oh! There’s a big puddle here. I don’t remember stepping in a puddle when we came across before. Olive Maybe we just stepped around it. ElinOR Mmm , maybe. ARI Come on! Let’s go see fishy. They hop across the rocks. 7. EXT. FISHY POOL - momENTS LATER They run up to the fishy pool, Ari in the lead. Ari Hey little fishy. Look what we ... Huh? Elinor and Olive join Ari at the edge of the pool. ELINOR What’s the matter, Ari? ANGLE ON: The water level is lower than it was earlier. The little fishy is still there. ARI There was lots of water in fishy’s pool before, but now there’s hardly any. olive Oh no, what happened? They look at the fish, who seems to have very little room to move around in. Elinor Fishy doesn’t have a lot of room to move around in. ArI That can’t be good. If the water keeps getting lower... They all give each other a worried look. OlIVE We HAVE to help fishy. Fishy needs more water to live in. Ari squats down by the pool and examines the edge. He shows a wet line where the water level was before. Ari The water in fishy’s pool used to be this high, and now it’s a lot lower. Olive The water must’ve gone somewhere . ELINOR Hmmm , that’s SO interesting. Elinor takes a step and notices the <SQUISH> sound it makes on the ground where the water was before. Something clicks. ElINOR (CONT’D) <GASP!> I think I might know where the water went. Let’s go back to where we crossed the stream. C’mon , we need more observations! 8. EXT. upstream narrows – MOMENTS LATER Elinor, Ari and Olive walk back to their rock walk. Elinor points to the puddle that’s formed on that side of the bank. ELINOR There’s less water in fishy’s pool, but there’s more water here next to the rocks we moved. Olive crosses over to see the puddle. OliVE You’re right, Elinor. But what does that mean? They look from the puddle to the water that’s flowing around the rocks. A TWIG floats toward the rocks, then swings around into the puddle. ari Hey, did you see that twig? ElINOR I saw it! OLIVE Here comes another one. Another twig swings around the rocks into the puddle. Ari It’s going around the rocks and into that puddle. Olive So the water’s making a puddle here, instead of going down to fishy’s pool. They look at each other, realizing what they’ve done. Elinor Oh no. When we put the rocks in the stream to get to the other side... She points downstream to where fishy’s pool is. ELINOR (CONT’D) ... we made the water stop going to fishy’s pool. OLIVE We never meant for that to happen. ELINOR Oh, poor fishy. And all because we wanted to explore that tree. ARI We have to fix it, or fishy might not have any water left to swim in. ELINOR But what can we do? Olive Let’s pull the rocks back, so the water can go through again. Ari and Olive agree <WALLA>. Ari and Elinor stand on one side of the stream and work together to pull one rock out. <EFFORT SOUNDS>. The rock rolls back and the water starts flowing through, but still moves around the other rock, which Olive is standing on. Ari It’s working. Let’s move the other one away. Ari flies across and Olive steps on the other side of the stream. Then they reach down and roll the other rock back. <EFFORT SOUNDS>. The water gushes straight through, like it did when they first got there. Olive and Ari high five each other. ELINOR Yay! We un did it! Ari Let’s go see if there’s more water in fishy’s pool. Ari flies back across. ElinOR Okay. Come on Olive. Olive (O.S.) Um ... That might be a problem. They look and see Olive on the other side of the stream. Olive (CONT’D) Now that the rocks are gone, I can’t get across anymore! Elinor and Ari look at each other. ElinOR Uh oh. We can’t put the rocks back. What should we do? Elinor looks at the water flowing through and sees another TWIG on the water. She smiles. ElinOR (CONT’D) Wait, I know! A THOUGHT BUBBLE appears of the ants they saw earlier crossing the puddle on the stick. ElinOR (CONT’D) Remember the ants we saw crossing over the puddle on the stick? Ari looks skeptical. Ari I don’t think Olive could walk on a stick. Elinor <GIGGLES>. ELINOR No, but maybe we could make a bridge like the ants made. One that goes over the stream, without blocking the water. Olive gets her notebook, and quickly draws another diagram of the stream, now with the two rocks on either side. Olive I think I know what we could do. She points to the rocks on either side of the stream. Olive (CONT’D) We have the rocks on the side of the stream. If we put something on top of them, we can make a bridge. Like this. She draws a rectangle across the stream, using the rocks as a base and sketches herself walking across. She holds it up and shows it to them. Ari What about the logs we were walking on before? One of those might work. ELINOR Great idea Ari. Let’s go. As they all sing, Elinor and Ari bring a log to their side of the stream (They do NOT go far to get it because we don’t want to leave Olive alone). They stand it up and lower it down. On the other side of the stream, Olive takes the end. On both sides, they guide the log so that it sits securely on top of the rocks. 9. SONG: WE’LL FIND A WAY Elinor/ARI/OLIVE We’ll find a way, Find a way. If we try and try again, We’ll find a better way. First we built a path of rocks Because we didn’t know It would stop the stream from going Where it used to go. We’ll find a way, Find a way. If we try and try again, We’ll find a better way. So we built a little bridge That lets the stream go through Now we go just where we want to And the stream can too! We found a way Found a way We tried and tried again. And found a better way! The bridge is built and Olive is ready to cross. ELINOR Come on Olive. Cross the bridge. She steps tentatively, and then hops across. OlivE It works! Ari Yay! Let’s go tell fishy. They hurry downstream to visit fishy. 10. EXT. fishy pool - momenTS LATER Fishy is happily swimming in his pool, which is up to the same level as it was before. Ari Hi fishy! We’re really sorry we took water away from your pool. Olive We didn’t know the rocks we moved would stop the water from going through. ELINOR But just like ants, we didn’t give up and we found a better way. We built a bridge! It’s much better, because it doesn’t stop the water. Right fishy? Fishy jumps out of the water and splashes back in. Ari Fishy says “Right!” The kids <GIGGLE>. They wave goodbye to fishy and head back to where they first started, and we see Ari do a quick bounce off a rock. Ari (CONT’D) I love exploring! The kids run/skip/have fun as they <SFX: WOO HOO /AWESOME/LET’S GO WALLA> and we... FADE OUT Segment 2. 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 its way to lay eggs up the river, which means it has to swim 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 I didn’t know fish could 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 You’re right, Ari! Momma fish has to find a safer spot where the water moves much more slowly. 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, like salmon, 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 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.) Awww , that baby fish is so small! Elinor (o.S.) Can that little fish swim up the fast river?? 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.) Not yet! The baby fish are carried down the river, and eventually go out to sea to grow bigger and stronger. 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 , it’s all grown up now. Nice moves! OLIVE (O.S.) It looks so strong! MZ . MOLE (O.S.) That’s right! It’s so strong, that now it can swim UP the river, when it’s time to lay eggs. Our big and grown hero fish makes her way up the river, against the current. We see an imposing dam blocking the river. ELINOR But Mz . Mole! There’s something blocking the way! How can the fish swim up the river now? MZ. MOLE Good observation! Someone built a “dam”. 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) Luckily whoever built the dam built a “fish ladder” too. That will 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) It can jump up each step in the ladder to get over the dam... and back to the same calm pool where it 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

EWW119A Water You Doing? RECORD September 23, 2019

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EWW119A Water You Doing? by Kate Barris Elinor’s Question: Where did the pool of water go? Logline: Elinor discovers that putting some rocks into a stream can affect where the water flows. Curriculum Goals: SEP1 . Asking questions a. Demonstrate curiosity about the greater world outside of their local environment b. Ask more complex questions about observable phenomena c. Ask and/or identify cause and effect questions that can be answered by an investigation d. Identify a problem that can be solved by the design of a new or improved object or tool (By asking questions, Elinor and her friends realize they have blocked the stream, and decide to make a small bridge instead). ES2 . Understand that plants and animals (including humans) can change their environment: a. Construct an argument (using evidence) for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs (Elinor and her friends change their environment by placing a rock to help them get across the stream) ND1 . ( RTL Crosscutting concept ‘Patterns’): Understand that modes of life in the natural world and engineered solutions in the designed world have common patterns, and engineers often look to natural patterns for inspiration. (Elinor gets the idea for the bridge from the ants using the leaf to cross the puddle.) ND5 .( RTL Crosscutting concept ‘Cause and Effect’): Appreciate that events are connected to each other via cause and effect, and that similar links can be found in the natural and designed worlds. (Elinor and her friends learn that their actions have an effect on the stream, and on the fish) ET1 . Begin to understand that asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems, and that it is important to clearly understand the problem before beginning to design a solution b. Define a simple problem that can be solved through the design of a new or improved tool or technology. (Elinor and her friends realize that if they build a small bridge OVER the stream they will not stop the flow of water). FIRST DRAFT July 5, 2019 SECOND DRAFT August 7, 2019 POLISH September 16, 2019 RECORD DRAFT: September 23, 2019 Elinor Elinor/olive/ari Ari Olive Elion Mr. Dog Ari/olive Ari’s mom Ari’s little sister Air Ms. Mole Mr. Mole Art Olie Mr. Hamster Mary Lizzie Liszzie Mary & lizzie Mr. Hm Mr. N Kids Elinr Elinor/ari/Olive Senor tapir Oiive Olive/ari Eline ELINOR/OLIVE (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) (thing-ese)_ (thing-ESE) INT EXT I/E 7 1 6 3. EXT 1. EXT 8 TRANSITION CIRCLE TIME SCIENCE STATION ACTIVITY BOARD COMPUTER STATION OPIE MONOLOGUE OPENING TITLES SEQUENCE COLD OPENING OPENING TITLES BLOCK AREA CIRCLE TIME SONG DOORWAY TO KINDERGARTEN COATROOM COATROOM - CUBBIES SENSES TABLE BAHTROOM BATHROOM CIRCLE RUB OPIE FANTASY DRAMA CENTRE CREDITS. PLAYGROUND - CATERPILLAR PLAYGROUND - NEAR THE SLIDES PLAYGROUND - TEEPEE LARGE SHRUB CUBBY AREA CLASSROOM HOLEY WALL CREATIVITY CENTRE CLASS - BETWEEEN MATH AND SCIENCE CIRCLE TIME RUG MATH CENTRE INT. CLASSROOM ICY SNOWY EXPANSE OUTSIDE SALLY'S HOUSE THE THINGAMAJIGGER FRICTIONARIUM FRICTIONARIUM - RAMPS THINGAMAJIGGER THINGAMAJIGGER -HEADING HOME NICK'S BACKYARD NICK'S BACK DOOR SERENDIP PATH SERENDIP FIRST PATH INT. SERENDIP CLOSER TO SCHOOL – A LITTLE LATER THE PARK UPSTREAM NARROWS THE BANK OF A SMALL STREAM BANK OF THE STREAM FISHY POOL SONG: HERE TO THERE SEGMENT 2. DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY CUBBIES SAME SAME TIME AERIAL ESTABLISHING SHOT CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. FADE OUT