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Find Mom's Phone

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Lila and her family are on a camping trip when Mom's phone, holding all their hiking photos, goes missing. Lila leads Mom back along the trail, using landmarks they passed, rock towers, a eucalyptus tree, ribbons, a log bench and giant mushrooms, to retrace their steps. She finds the phone on the rock where the family had lunch, and they hurry back to camp before dark. The episode ends around a sunset campfire with the family singing a camping song.

The Impossible Dream

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A boy named Carl is building a spaceship from boxes, boards and odds and ends he borrows from his neighbour Stillwater, a panda who lives next door. When Carl's brother and sister insist the spaceship will never fly, Stillwater tells him the story of Joku, a farmer who refused to believe it was impossible to catch the sun. Encouraged, Carl decides to keep trying and lowers his sights to getting just a little way up. The episode ends with Carl, Addy and Michael taking turns on a pretend flight, thrilled that it feels like the spaceship is really soaring.

Shoe La La!

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Nancy falls in love with a pair of forty-dollar red shoes and is told by both parents that they cost too much for shoes she cannot wear every day. After learning the difference between a want and a need, she decides to earn the money herself through extra chores like weeding the garden and saving her piggy bank money. At the store she is caught out by sales tax and comes up short, then earns a tip by giving another shopper honest shoe advice. She finally has enough and buys the red shoes.

Da Get Pep Band

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Lyla's mother comes home celebrating a win with her sports team's cheering group, the Get Pep Band, and Lyla's dad and three children decide to try out. The younger children, Mila and Ev, can play the notes of Hot Cross Buns but cannot hold each one for the right number of beats, so they grow frustrated and nearly give up. Lyla refuses to quit and invents a new way to learn: the children hop across giant notes drawn on the ground while singing, feeling the length of each beat with their bodies. It works, and all three join the band for a final celebration.

The Race

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Addy prepares for a cross-country race with help from her panda neighbour Stillwater and her siblings. She runs hard but loses to Asha, the fastest runner, and feels there is nothing to celebrate. Stillwater tells a version of The Tortoise and the Hare in which the tortoise races against himself, and Addy realises she set a personal best time. The siblings celebrate with smoothies and Asha comes over to congratulate her.

Buddy Race

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Dora is running a buddy race in the park with her friend Alana to raise money to rebuild the city's playground. When Alana twists her ankle just before the start, the group decides that Pablo, Emma, Naya and Kate will each take one section of the race and pass a team flag along. The course takes them through a tandem bike and hula hoop obstacle run, a rhyming music stage, a kayak trip down an underground river and a fruit catching round in costume. Alana returns for the final sports brain teasers, the team finishes, and the announcer confirms the playground will be repaired.

The Scientist Who Studied Bug Brains

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Two hosts and their robot rat Squeaks watch honey bees in a garden and then tell the true story of Dr. Charles Henry Turner, a scientist who proved that bugs can learn and remember. The episode explains his colored-box experiment, which showed bees can see color and return to where they found food, and notes that he was refused a university job because he was Black. It closes with the hosts wondering about their own bee questions and inviting children to experiment. Real bee footage and simple animations illustrate the science and Turner's life throughout.

Saving Ayati

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In a prehistoric jungle, a group of young dinosaur friends is playing games when their giant long-necked friend Ayati topples over and cannot get back up. Led by the inventive Mazu, they try one plan after another, tickling her, pulling with vines, and levering a boulder off a cliff, each of which fails. In the end they lure the enormous Gigantosaurus with a walnut, and he knocks the boulder loose in a way that finally lifts Ayati to her feet. The friends celebrate as Ayati heads home to the jungle before nightfall.

Think Quick

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Mazu, a young dinosaur who feels too slow to keep up with her friends, is desperate to grab one of the giant walnuts that the big winds will knock from the trees. She tries invented springy legs, tall stilts and various running tricks, and each one fails. When the winds come and the towering Gigantosaurus gives chase, Mazu realises the huge walnut leaves can be used to glide to safety. The friends escape, share their walnuts with another creature, and Mazu learns that she thinks quick even if she cannot run quick.

Min's Quest

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Min and her family of Dino Ranchers find a baby dinosaur whose mother is sick after eating the wrong plant. Min works out that the cure is moon lilies, and the children ride off to find them, facing a tar pit, a thieving compy, and nightfall along the way. After several failed tries, Min realises the flowers glow in moonlight and the kids gather enough to heal the mother dinosaur. Ma tells them she is proud that they never gave up.

Gets Eaten

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On a class field trip with Ms. Frizzle, Keisha and Arnold realise they forgot their report and must explain how the green scum on Arnold's shoe connects to Keisha's tuna fish sandwich. The magic school bus shrinks the class down and takes them into the ocean, where they meet phytoplankton, zooplankton, anchovies and finally a tuna. Step by step they discover the ocean food chain and work out that everything is linked. Back in class they present their finished report, and a closing phone call recaps the idea of food chains and webs.

All Mapped Out

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In the seaside town of Foggy Springs, Max, Sharkdog and their friends discover that a hidden corner of an old map has mysteriously filled itself in. The pack works through one idea after another, scratching, shaking, singing, a UV light and total darkness, to reveal the rest of the map. When unexpected snow falls, they realize that anything frozen melting on the paper is what makes the map appear, pointing to a secret island reachable only when the sea freezes. Along the way Sharkdog briefly feels alone and is reassured by Max before the friends agree to reach the island once they have some patience.