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 that kind of tree before! How INTERESTING! SENOR TAPIR (chuckling) You remind me of another curious explorer who loved plants more than anything, and was really good at figuring out what made each one special. She was a botanist named 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 (singing) A “botanist” is someone who loves flowers, sprouts, and trees, She studies how they grow and bloom and writes down what she sees. [[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.]] ZOOM OUT: to see that the plant she's studying is growing in a wild and dangerous location. Ynes Mexia , brave and bold, would never miss a chance To get out to the great outdoors, exploring for new plants! Mexia climbs onto her mule, her saddlebags bursting with plant cuttings and her notebook in her hand. She dove into adventures with her notebook at her side, Finding thousands of strange plants throughout her travels far and wide. ZOOM IN ON: Mexia's notebook, with a sketch of the legendary Wax Palm growing in the mountains. One day she heard a tale about a tall and lovely tree, And left at once to satisfy her curiosity! Mexia , on her mule, looks up at a steep mountain trail. High up the rocky trail Ynes Mexia aimed to go, To reach the misty forests where the lovely Wax Palm grows! The tallest of all palm trees, it prefers the mountain air. To see it with her own two eyes, she had to climb up there! Mexia and her guides start up the trail, which zig-zags up the mountain. [ chorus ] A “botanist” is someone who loves flowers, sprouts, and trees, She studies how they grow and bloom and writes down what she sees. Ynes Mexia , brave and bold, would never miss a chance To get out to the great outdoors, exploring 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. Fighting through the rainstorms, the wind and blinding sun, They lost the trail, but would not stop until their task was done. Rounding a bend, Mexia spots the palm tree! Mexia runs to it and pulls out her notebook, feverishly sketching. "At last!" Ynes Mexia cried, when first she saw the tree. Two hundred feet in height, it grew as tall as she could see! All plants have different features that help them stay alive, Since they grow in different places: cold and wet or hot and dry. 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). The mountain air reminded her of weather back at home, [[One big reason she was looking for the tree was because it was thought that it might grow better in northern California than other palm trees, because the climates are similar (because the wax palm tolerates cold) - ties into learning objective LS2.]] So she took some seeds along to grow a Wax Palm of her own! ZOOM OUT: The group happily makes their way back down the mountain. [ chorus ] A “botanist” is someone who loves flowers, sprouts, and trees, She studies how they grow and bloom and writes down what she sees. Ynes Mexia , brave and bold, would never miss a chance To get out to the great outdoors, exploring 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 123: 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: 5/10/2019 (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. 120