1. EXT DESERT -- DAY
ELINOR, ARI, and OLIVE are exploring the area around
BiBi’s
house. We see features of
Bibi’s
desert environment. The sun’s heat reflects off the landscape.
<SFX:
DRY BREEZE BLOWING>
Ari
It’s so hot out!
OLIVE
And dry...
The kids stop and look up at the landscape in front of them. They see sun-soaked hills but not a plant or animal in sight.
ELINOR
There aren’t any plants or animals around. I wonder why not...
<SFX:
GUITAR TUNING>
SR. TAPIR (O.S.)
Well, plants and animals need food and water. Not much of that to be found right here!
The kids turn around and are surprised to see Senior Tapir in the desert.
ARI, OLIVE, and Elinor
Senior Tapir!
Ari
What are you doing here!?
SR. TAPIR
Heh
heh
. Well, like you, I enjoy a visit to the desert now and then. I’m on vacation!
ELINOR
Senior Tapir, I wonder why plants or animals can’t live here..
SR. TAPIR
I’m not so sure they can’t! Let me sing you a song about a scientist from the Philippines who wondered about where life can - and can’t -survive.
<SFX:
YAY WALLA> Senior Tapir stands and stretches his back to sing and play the guitar. The kids gather close by.
2. EXT OUTSIDE (SONG ANIMATION) -- DAY
In simplified song animation, we see young
Roseli
Ocampo
in a TROPICAL FOREST in the Philippines, examining a plant.
SR. TAPIR (CONT’D)
O – O –
Roseli
Ocampo
Wondered where life would grow
O O
Roseli
, oh!
So she traveled on to where she could go
Roseli
walks through the forest looking at the extent of life.
Well all life is alive!
Life needs food and water to thrive
Some places have lot and lots
And some places: they don’t have as much.
Roseli
continues her walk through the TROPICAL FOREST, but as she passes behind a big tree, her clothes and the forest change, from tropical forest to a SOUTHWESTERN DESERT.
So many different living things around
Could it be that life has found
a way…?
Roseli
wondered…
Close-up on
Roseli
as she stoops to examine a rock in the desert. A cute horned toad climbs up on her shoulder to look at the same rock. It looks at the camera and shrugs.
O - O -
Roseli
Ocampo
Wondered where life would grow
O O
Roseli
, oh!
So she traveled on to the desert cold!
Roseli
walks on, passing behind a huge saguaro cactus. As she does, her clothes change to ARCTIC GEAR and the setting changes to a lifeless ARCTIC DESERT.
Deserts have very little water
And one desert has the least
So
Roseli
, she journeyed there
to
see what she could see
Roseli
looks closely at a horizontal band in a cliff face. She scrapes off some of the rock and holds it in both hands, carefully taking it with her.
She used her observation
And her skill with plant care
And
whaddya
know? Where life will go!
She found life even there!
INSIDE,
Roseli
peers at her collection through a microscope. CUT TO: Microscope
POV:
links of green ovals, gently swaying. Cyanobacteria from Antarctica. BACK ON:
Roseli
looks surprised and happy.
O - O -
Roseli
Ocampo
Wondered where life would grow
O O
Roseli
, oh!
Found life in the driest desert cold!
Roseli
continues her march though the Antarctic desert. Fade to white.
BACK ON: Senior Tapir and the kids.
<SFX:
KIDS CHEER>
OLIVE
Well, this desert isn’t
that
dry.
ARI
Yeah. Maybe we aren’t looking closely enough.
ELINOR
Or
... in the right place! Look!
Elinor points off to the left. There they see cacti, a tortoise slowly shuffling in the shade, and a lizard scamper by.
<SFX:
WHOA COOL WALLA>
EWW
123 Interstitial
Señor Tapir Ballad
Roseli
Ocampo-Friedman
- "
Roseli
in Antarctica"
Robert
Kalinowski
Follows: "Burrowing Owl Girl"
Curriculum: the kids learn that
Roseli
Ocampo-Friedman
was a Philippine born botanist who wondered if life could exist in even the harshest deserts on Earth, so she went to the Ross Desert in Antarctica and found out!
LS3
. Understand that all animals need food in order to live and grow, that they get their food from plants or from other animals, and that plants need water and light to live and grow:
FIRST DRAFT: Sept. 11, 2019
OLIVE
Ari
ELinor
SR. TAPIR
ARI, OLIVE, and Elinor
ARE
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