1. EXT. THE FOREST - DAY OPEN ON: ELINOR’S hand sticking up into the frame. ELINOR Hands up everyone who wants to go exploring. I do! ARI’s hand comes up beside hers. ArI I do! OLIVE’S hand comes up between Elinor’s and Ari’s. Olive Me too! WIDER SHOT: We see them at the edge of the forest. Ari Where do we start? Elinor gestures to the area around them. ELINOR Right here. If we look around I bet we’ll find something interesting. Olive is looking at the ground. Olive Like these ants? I love ants! They’re so smart. ANGLE ON: A TRAIL OF ANTS walking along in a line. Ari I wonder where they’re going. ELINOR Let’s follow them and find out. They crouch down and follow the ants, who march along and arrive at the edge of a BIG PUDDLE. ARI How are they going to get across? Olive They can’t walk on the water. ANGLE ON: The ants walk along the edge of the puddle, till they get to a leaf that’s lying on the puddle. The first few ants walk on the leaf, but come to the end of it and have to turn around. ElinOR But they can walk on a leaf. Only, it’s not going to get them to the other side of the puddle. Ari Poor ants. Olive Oh I bet they’ll find a way. The lead ants go back to the edge of the puddle and continue walking along until they come to a small STICK that arches over the puddle. The first ant climbs up onto the stick and starts to cross the puddle. The other ants follow until they get to the other side of the puddle. ElinOR Look a that. ArI You were right, Olive. They found a way. Olive Yup. That’s ants for you. ELINOR See, we just started exploring and already we found something interesting. Olive So, where should we explore next? Elinor points in a direction. ELINOR Let’s go this way. OLIVE Okay, but let’s pretend to be ants. Elinor and Ari look at Olive, puzzled. ELINOR What do you mean? Olive 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.) olive Let’s find ways to get through the forest without walking on the ground. Like this. Sh e steps up on a log and puts her arms out to balance. ElinOR Fun! Let’s see how long we can go without touching the ground. Ari flaps his wings and lifts of the ground. Ari Does flying count? Elinor and Olive <GIGGLE> and shake their heads. ELINOR/OLIVE Ari!! He smiles and returns to the ground. ARI Just kidding. Elinor hops onto a 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 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 and almost bump into her. Then they peer around her and see the stream. Elinor What is it Olive? ... Oh, a stream. Olive I guess that’s the end of our exploring. We can’t get to the other side. Ari flaps his wings again and lifts off the ground. ARI I can. Elinor steps on a rock beside Olive at the stream’s edge. ElinOR But we can’t fly. And it’s too far to jump. ANGLE: A LITTLE FISH jumps out of the water and splashes back into it! ELINOR (CONT’D) 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 Hello little fishy! They wave at the fishy. olive It must be nice to have your own swimming pool. ElinoR If we could swim like you, we could get to the other side of the stream and keep exploring. Olive points upstream. Olive I think the stream i 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 here without getting wet . Olive looks hesitant . ARI Maybe you could use a long stick to help you 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 so, Ari. H is THOUGHT BUBBLE POPS. Elinor We need more ideas. Olive gets out her notebook and pencil from her backpack . She draws two lines for the two edges of the stream, and some little waves . Then she draws stick figures of the three of them on one side. OLIVE Let’s see. This is the stream. And this is us on one side. ELINOR But we want to be on the other side. What else have we got here? Elinor and Ari look around. He’s standing on a rock Ari Just 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. 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). ElinoR Yay ! We built a walk way . Ari A rock walkway. Olive Well, l et’s walk across. They hop across on the rocks and land on the other side. Then they high-five each other. ARI We did it! ElINOR Now we can keep exploring . 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. 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. 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! It was a great idea to explore on that side. Olive We saw so many cool things. Ari Let’s go tell our fishy friend all about it. ELINOR We can cross the stream again using the rock walkway we built . 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 Ew ! 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. That’s not good. OliVE There was lots of water before. What happened? 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 only fish who live in the ocean drink water. But this isn’t the ocean - it’s just a stream. ELINOR So fishy didn’t drink all that water. A beat as this sinks in , then Ari smiles, as a THOUGHT BALLOON appears, showing a GIANT WITH A STRAW, SUCKING UP WATER FROM THE STREAM. Ari H mmm . But ... Maybe a giant came and drank it all, with a huge straw! Elinor and Olive < giggle > and shake their heads. OlIVE There ’s gotta be an explanation, and we HAVE to help fishy. ELINOR We need more observations! Ari squats down by the pool and examines the edge. He shows a wet line where the water level was before. Ari I observe that the water in fishy’s pool used to be this high, and now it’s a lot lower . Olive It must’ve gone somewhere . ELINOR That’s SO interesting. There’s less water here in fishy’s pool, and there’s more water over by our rock walkway. Olive But why? ElINOR Let’s go back there and take a closer 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. A TWIG float s toward the rocks , then swings around into the puddle . Olive Hey, did you see that twig? ElINOR What about it? OLIVE Here comes another one. Watch what happens. Another twig swings around the rocks into the puddle. Ari It’s going around our rock walk way and into that puddle . Olive So the water’s making a puddle here, i nstead of going down to fishy’s pool. They look at each other, realizing what they’ve done. Elinor So, when we put the rocks in the stream to get to the other side . .. S he points downstream to where fishy’s pool is. ELINOR (CONT’D) ... we made the water stop going to fishy’s pool . OLIVE Wow. We never meant for that to happen. ARI No! We have to fix it, or fishy might not have any water left 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 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 un 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 way is gone, I can’t get across anymore. Elinor and Ari look at each other. ElinOR There’s got to be a nother way across . Elinor looks at the water flowing through and sees another TWIG 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 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 walkway that goes over the stream, without blocking it. Like the ants did. Olive gets 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. As they all sing, Elinor and Ari bring a log 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. 8. 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 wall 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! T he 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 really sorry we took water away from your pool. Olive We didn’t know our rock walk way would stop the water from going through. ELINOR But we found a better way. We built a bridge ! It’ s much better than a wall , because it doesn’t stop the water . Right fishy? Fishy jumps out of the water and splashes back in. Ari Fishy says “Right!” <GIGGLES> FADE OUT.

EWW138 Water You Doing? D2 August 07, 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 SECOND DRAFT August 7, 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 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.