Air date: July 1, 2020note
"Wild Moose Chase": Molly's class is learning about bartering by practicing with kids who live in Kaktovik, Alaska.
"Wild Moose Chase" contains the following tropes:
- Artistic License – Physics: A full set of moose antlers can easily weigh 80 pounds, before factoring in the heavy wood used to mount them. But 10-year-old Molly is able to heft and carry them with ease, and Anka the pup can drag them off and fully bury them before her humans notice.
- Chekhov's Boomerang: The metal detector Walter traded the moose antlers for is later used to find them...and then used again to find the whale bone the moose antlers are traded for.
- Companion Cube: Mr. Patak trades the moose antlers for a block of wood fit for carving. But he seems more interested in cuddling it than choosing what to turn it into.
- Imagine Spot: Renate, the kids' teacher, encourages the kids to close their eyes and picture what she's talking about in their heads.
- Plot Coupon: Molly needs a set of moose antlers to complete a trade deal with the Kaktovik school kids. But her dad has traded the antlers away, and she has to track them down.
"Where the Bison Roam": Molly and her mother accompany Nina to see Nina's friend, Professor Locklear, who is going out to count Wood Bison as part of a conservation project about which Nina plans to write a nature article for a magazine.
"Where the Bison Roam" contains the following tropes:
- Babies Ever After: Nina explains that babies found among reintroduced animals indicates that the species is doing well in its new environment.
- Seldom-Seen Species: Wood bison are far less frequently featured in media than their famous Great Plains cousins.
