1. EXT. THE FOREST - DAY OPEN ON: An extreme close up of Elinor, focussing very hard on something. ELINOR That’s SO interesting! ARI’s face comes in beside hers. ArI What’s so interesting, Elinor? Now we see that they’re looking at A TRAIL OF ANTS walking across a LEAF to get over a PUDDLE. OLIVE’S face comes into view as she joins Elinor and Ari. Olive Ooh ! Ants. I love ants. Elinor points at one side of the puddle, and then to the other side. ELINOR Look. They want to get from here to there. But there’s a puddle in the way. So instead of walking through the puddle, they’re walking on the leaf to get over the puddle. The others nod and then get up. Olive Ants are really, really smart. ELINOR That’s why exploring nature is so fun. There’s so much to learn. Ari looks puzzled. Ari So, what’d we learn from the ants? Elinor < giggles >. ELINOR That if you’re smart, you can always find a way from here to there. Even if there’s something in the way. Olive Hmmm . Like I said, ants are smart. So, here should we explore next? They look around. Elinor points in a direction. ELINOR Let’s go this way. But, wait! Let’s play a game. Ari Sure! What kind of game? Elinor sees 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.) ELINOR An ANT game. We can be ants and find ways to get from here to there - without walking on the ground. Ari gets a sneaky smile. ArI Easy-peasy . He flaps his wings and lifts off the ground. Olive and Elinor < giggle >. Elinor (giggling) Not that way, Ari. Flying doesn’t count. Olive steps up on a fallen log and puts her arms out to balance. Olive You mean like walking on this log to get from here to there, right Elinor? Elinor smiles as Olive wobbles along the log. ElinOR Right. Let’s see how long we can go without touching the ground, by stepping on rocks or logs or tree stumps. Ari The way the ants walked on the leaf to cross over the puddle. Elinor nods, then hops onto the fallen log, following Olive. Then Ari does the same. 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 gets to the end of the log and spots a small tree stump, then another log. Ari comes to the end of the log and looks both ways. He decides to follow Olive. 2. EXT. fishy pool - momENTS LATER Elinor hops from the log onto a rock near a small, shallow stream. A little jut has created a kind of a cove where the water eddies, creating a little pool. As she tries not to lose her balance, she notices something. ANGLE: A LITTLE FISH jumps out of the water and splashes back into it! ELINOR Woah ! Did you see that? Olive and Ari stop and almost lose their balance as they look over toward Elinor. OliVE See what? Elinor steps down off the rock and goes to the edge of the stream, As she peers into the water, the fish jumps again, making a <SPLASH>. ELINOR There’s a little fishy here. Olive jumps down off the log to join Elinor. OLIVE Oooh ! Let’s see! Ari, still on the log, raises his arms in victory. ArI Haha ! I’m still off the ground. WINNER!! But Olive and Elinor aren’t paying attention to him, they’re intrigued with what they’re looking at, so Ari jumps off the rock and joins them at the edge of the stream. ELINOR Look. The fishy’s got its own little swimming pool. They peer into the water, and see the little fish, which is peering up at them, opening and closing its mouth. ARI Hello little fishy! They wave at the fishy. olive Nice to meet you. Elinor Have a great day in your pool! (she stands up and looks around) Now which way should we explore? They look across the stream. OLIVE I wonder what’s over on that side of the stream? ELINOR There’s only one way to find out. Ari Let’s go! Olive But how will we get over there? It’s too far to jump. Elinor points upstream. ElINOR I think it’s narrower up there. Maybe it’ll be easier to cross. They head upstream. Ari stops and calls back. Ari Bye little fishy! We’ll come back and tell you what we saw. 3. EXT. upstream narrows - moments later They arrive at a narrower part of the stream. ElinoR This is a nice narrow spot. Maybe we can get across. Ari flaps his wings and lifts off the ground a bit. Ari Well I know I can. Olive and Elinor <GIGGLE>. ELINOR You can, but we can’t fly. And it’s too far to jump. They look down at the water and see a LEAF being carried downstream by the current. olive And the water’s moving pretty fast. Look at how that leaf is being moved by the stream. Ari gets a thought bubble over his head of Olive pole vaulting over the stream ! ARI Have you ever seen anyone pole vault? It’s where you use a long stick to help you jump over something. Maybe you could try that? Olive looks at Ari with surprise as his THOUGHT BUBBLE POPS, and she opens her backpack. Olive ( giggle ) I don’t think so, Ari. Elinor We need more ideas. What do you think Olive? Olive gets out her notebook and pencil. She draws two lines for the stream, and an arrow showing the flow of the water. OLIVE Let’s see. This is the stream. The water is going this way. She draws stick figures of the three of them on one side. OLIVE (CONT’D) And this is us on one side. ELINOR But we want to be on the other side. Elinor and Ari look around. He’s standing on a rock. ELINOR (CONT’D) What else have we got here? Ari Just rocks. Elinor’s face lights up. ELINOR Rocks! That’s it! ARI What’s it? ELINOR Remember the game we were playing, where 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. Olive Then we could walk on the rocks to get across. Ari Amazing! 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). They’re delighted with their work and high five each other. ElinoR We did it! We built a rock walk. Ari Yay us! Olive Let’s ealk across. They hop across on the rocks and land on the other side. ElINOR Now we can explore this way. They all start walking downstream on the other side. 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. Another LEAF 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. Time Transition. 4. 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. Ari Wow! That was fun. Olive We saw so many cool things. ElinoR I liked the dragonfly best. OLIVE Hmmm ... I liked the hummingbird. What’d you like best Ari? Ari I liked ... everything ! Let’s go tell our fishy friend all about it. ELINOR We can use our rock walk again to get from here to there. 5. 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 That’s weird. ArI What is? ELINOR 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 Maybe. ARI Come on! Let’s go see fishy. They hop across the rocks, not noticing the water. 6. EXT. FISHY POOL - momENTS LATER They run up to the fishy pool, Ari in the lead. Ari Hey little fishy. You’ll never guess 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’s hardly any water in fishy’s pool now. OliVE There was lots of water before. Ari turns and addresses the fish. ArI Did you drink all that water, fishy? Elinor has a thought. ELINOR Do fish drink water? Olive has her nature book out. She flips some pages, consults the book, then looks up at Elinor and shakes her head. OlivE My nature book says no, fish don’t drink water. A beat as this sinks in <HMMMM> then Elinor smiles, as a THOUGHT BALLOON appears, showing a GIANT ALIEN WITH A STRAW, SUCKING UP WATER FROM THE STREAM. ELINOR Huh. Then ... Maybe a giant alien came and drank it all, with a huge straw! Ari and Olive < giggle > and shake their heads. OlIVE There must be some other reason. ELINOR We need more observations! Ari I observe that there’s just a puddle here now. Elinor looks up at the word “puddle”. ELINOR Puddle! That’s SO interesting. Olive starts to get what Elinor’s thinking. Olive Right. There’s a puddle where fishy’s swimming pool used to be. And over near our rock walk, it used to be dry ... Now Ari gets it. ari And now there’s a puddle! ElINOR Let’s go look. 7. EXT. upstream narrows – MOMENTS LATER Elinor, Ari and Olive stand on their rock walk. Elinor points the puddle that’s formed on that side of the bank. ELINOR There’s the puddle. But where’s the water coming from? They look from the puddle to the water that’s flowing around the rocks. There’s another LEAF floating toward the rocks. Olive There. Watch the leaf on the water. The leaf swings around the rocks and into the puddle. Ari It’s going around our rock walk and into the puddle, instead of down to fishy’s pool. Elinor points from one side of the stream to the other... Elinor So, when we put the rocks in the stream to get from here to there... Then she points from the walkway to downstream where fishy’s pool is. ELINOR (CONT’D) ... we made the water stop going from here to there . OLIVE Wow. We never thought that would happen. ARI We have to fix it, or fishy might not have any water to swim in. ELINOR Okay. 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 water starts flowing through, but still moves around the other rock, which Olive is standing on. Ari It’s working. Can you move the other one away Olive? Olive nods and steps on the other side of the stream. Then she reaches down and pulls the other rock back. <EFFORT SOUNDS>. The water gushes straight through, like it did when they first got there. Elinor and Ari high five each other. ELINOR Yay! We did it! Ari Let’s go see if there’s more water in fishy’s pool. 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 rock walk is gone, I can’t get across anymore. Elinor and Ari look at each other. ElinOR There’s got to be a way to get you from there to here without blocking the water. Elinor looks at the water flowing through and sees another LEAF on the water. She smiles. ElinOR (CONT’D) And I think I know what it is. A THOUGHT BUBBLE appears of the ants they saw earlier crossing the puddle on the leaf. ElinOR (CONT’D) Remember the ants we saw crossing over the puddle on the leaf? Ari looks skeptical. Ari I don’t think Olive could walk on a leaf. Elinor <GIGGLES>. ELINOR No, but maybe we could make something that goes over the stream, without blocking it. Like the ants did. Olive gets out her notebook, which has the drawing from before. 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. Maybe we could put something on top of them to make a bridge. Like this. She draws a kind of plank across the stream, using the rocks as a base. 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. Elinor and Ari work together to get the log. Then they bring it to their side of the stream. 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 rock. During all this, they sing their song: 8. SONG: here to there Elinor/ARI/OLIVE Here to there, Here to there. We have to find a way to get From here to there. So we built a wall of rocks Because we didn’t know It would stop the stream from going Where it used to go. 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! Here to there Here to there We found a better way to get From here to there. At the end of the song, 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 us! Let’s go tell fishy. They hurry downstream to visit fishy. 9. 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 sorry we took water away from your pool. Olive We didn’t know our rock walk would stop the water from going through. ELINOR But now we know: A bridge is better than a wall. Right fishy? Fishy jumps out of the water and splashes back in. Ari Fishy says “Right!” FADE OUT.

EWW138 Water You Doing? D1 July 05, 2019

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EWW138 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). LS5 . Begin to understand that animals and plants depend on other living things and nonliving things in the environment to meet some of their needs. (Elinor and her friends realize the fish needs water in order to survive). 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) FIRST DRAFT July 5, 2019 "Overall: very nice, and has lots of nice little moments. Just a few suggestions to add comedy and increase the emphasis on the curiosity. (Pro Spanish typing tip: to make an ñ (as in Señor Tapir), you can type Alt-164 (on a PC) or hold down Option key and type the letter n, lift off and type n again (on a Mac) )" Very nice Ari's reaction - in several previous episodes, we've established that he loves when she uses her trunk. perhaps he reacts in a positive way instead of being startled "After 42, if there's time, consider a bit more idea-generating here. For example: Elinor and Ari can try to make music with their bodies (Ari flaps his wings, Elinor bangs her ears together?)" agree - Elinor can point out tht Olive used her body - maybe they can too - and try to make sounds ie - J&D suggestions 94-94 - could possibly have this in thought bubbles so our audience gets to be reminded of what they observed in nature Question: are there other kids or adults in the concert, or is it just Sr. Tapir and our kids? "I assume they are back to the gazebo in the park - we would have secondaries gathered for the show? some on blankets, others walking along and stop to watch etc. " 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 (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 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.