Elinor, Ari and Olive cross a stream. / Why do we blink?

Water You Doing?/Thinking About Blinking

The kids take a field trip to a Cloud Forest./The kids learn how crayons are made.

Just Mist/Crayon Quest

Why do we sneeze? / Ari's lucky shirt is too small.

These Sneezes/Ari's Lucky Shirt

The Exploring Club explores under a log. / Why does it need to rain?

Follow that Roly Poly/Rain, Rain Don't Go Away

The kids observe weather patterns. / Olive has a bad case of the hiccups.

Don’t Rain on my Parade/Olive Hiccups it Up

Elinor’s power goes out. / Elinor loses her frisbee in a tree.

Blackout/Tree that Eats Toys

The kids try to get animals to the Flower Garden. / The kids’ snow sculptures get ruined!

Flower Power / The Snow Must Go On

The kids try to build a sandcastle. / The kids learn about slime.

Going with the Tide / Slime Time

Olive and Ari have a disagreement. / The kids learn about meadows.

A Little Help / Elinor’s Meadow

The kids learn the benefits of eating different foods. / Olive tries to take the perfect picture.

Tasty Rainbow / Olive gets the Big Picture

The kids tell spooky stories of amazing creatures. / The kids learn about mold!

The Fright Stuff / Doug the Mold

The kids visit huge trees in the sequoia forest./Elinor and Ari try to teach Miri to walk.

Big Trees/Baby Steps

Elinor breaks her arm. / The kids learn the importance of mud.

Circus Tricks/Stuck in the Mud

Elinor and friends try to build their own nest./Elinor and friends learn about eating different food

Elinor’s Nest/Foody Fuel

The kids surprise Mz. Mole for Teacher’s Day./A pig named Rudy uses his nose to find truffles.

Teacher’s Day/The Nose Knows

Olive wants to have a party with real butterflies! / The kids learn about spiderwebs.

Butterfly Party/More Than One Right Way

Olive has too many books! / The kids make a Nature Walk for Nature Day.

Olive's Library/Nature Walk

Elinor visits her grandparents in the desert./Olive shows her friends her favorite tree.

Burrowing Owl Girl/Olive's Tree

What happens to fish in a lake when it freezes?/Ari forgets where he hid his treasure.

Frozen Fish/Pirate Treasure

The kids learn how rocks rock! / Elinor attempts to make dumplings.

Rocks Rock / A Birthday for Bibi

The kids try to help Miri. / The kids adventure into a cave.

Don’t Cry, Miri / Cave Creatures

The kids go tobogganing! / Ari learns the importance of brushing your teeth.

Downhill Dash / Brush Your Teeth

The kids try to find a missing Srta. Tapir. / The kids try to track down a bird thief.

The Beat of a Different Drummer / The Bird Thief

Elinor Wonders Why

Full Episodes

Adventure in Moose Mountain

Elinor

Olive

Senor Tapir sings to the kids about famous underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Sr. Tapir Sings About Jacques Cousteau

Senor Tapir sings Elinor and friends a song about the man who designed a faster train.

Eiji Nakatsu

After learning how butterflies drink, Elinor celebrates by singing a song.

The Butterfly Song

Senor Tapir sings a song about Alexandra Horowitz and her research with dog senses.

Alexandra Horowitz

Senor Tapir sings a song about Irene Pepperburg and her work with birds.

Irene Pepperburg

Senor Tapir sings Elinor and friends a song about the man who invented the parachute.

The Lenormand Parachute

PREVIEW: Elinor and her friends sing about how to keep things safe.

To Keep Something Safe, Keep It In a Special Place

Elinor and friends celebrate learning all about maps by singing a pirate song.

Finding the Treasure

The Pirate Song

Elinor and Friends practice a new song they wrote called "The Feelings Song."

The Feelings Song

Elinor tries to figure out how to sing her song now that she lost her voice.

Talking Without a Voice

Elinor Wonders Why Theme Song

Elinor and friends sing a song about the way that plants grow.

The Way Plants Grow

The kids observe a lizard eating and sing about how it's good to eat different foods!

Eating Different Things is Where it's At

Elinor and Olive sing to Ari about how it's important to get rest to be strong.

Give it a Rest!

On the search for fungi, the kids sing a song about the importance of our sense of smell!

The Nose Knows

When the class learns about viruses, Elinor shares a song about how to clean your paws.

The Clean Paw Dance

In the cloud forest, Elinor, Ari, and Olive sing a song about the water in the air around us.

Water in the Air

Elinor and her mom, Ranger Rabbit, sing a song about how forests change and grow.

Forests are Always Growing

Elinor, Ari, and Olive sing about the many amazing ways that seeds can travel.

Seeds, Seeds, Seeds!

The kids take inspiration from a sand crab to keep their sandcastle safe from the tide.

Go with the Tide

Olive and Ari sing a song about how different animals can help each other out.

Help Each Other Out!

Elinor, Olive, Ari, and Ms. Llama sing about eating produce of many different colors.

Eat the Rainbow

Music

Jorge and Elinor explore to see why and how caterpillars transform into butterflies.

That's So Interesting!: Why Do Caterpillars Turn Into Butterflies?

Jorge and Ari take a look at how cheetahs are able to run so fast!

That's So Interesting!: How Do Cheetahs Run So Fast?

Ari gives Jorge the inside scoop on why bats like to hang upside down.

That's So Interesting!: Why Do Bats Like to Hang Upside Down?

Jorge and Elinor look at leaves and find out why some of them change color in the Fall.

That's So Interesting!: Why Do Leaves Change Colors?

Jorge and Elinor learn about flies and how they can fly around without getting dizzy.

That's So Interesting!: Can a Fly Get Dizzy?

Jorge and Olive explore the world of flowers and the reasons why they are so colorful.

That's So Interesting!: Why Are Flowers Different Colors?

When Olive gets a case of the hiccups, she and Jorge find out if all animals get hiccups.

That's So Interesting!: Do Animals Get the Hiccups?

Jorge and Elinor explore why moths have different colors and designs on their wings.

That's So Interesting!: Why Do Moths Have Patterns on Their Wings?

That's So Interesting!

Instead of mowing the lawn, Elinor and her dad let part of the garden grow into a meadow.

Making Elinor's Meadow

Ms. Badger teaches the kids a few tips for taking a good photo in nature!

Nature Photography Tips

Olive, Elinor, and Ari discover that the violet sends its seeds out in an explosion.

A Seed Explosion

The kids use the photos Olive has taken of a mysterious bird to try and identify it.

It's a Bird, It's a Penguin, It's a...

Elinor, Ari, and Olive learn about different colored varieties of the same vegetables.

Foods of Different Colors

When half the art class ice sculptures melt, Elinor and her friends try to figure why.

The Mystery of the Melting Ice

Ari and Elinor are excited to make a sandcastle! But the waves keep making things harder.

The Exploring Club Sandcastle

Camilla and Elinor get ready for a very fancy tea party, complete with costume jewelry!

A Fancy Tea Party

When Camilla's tea party gets rained on, a surprising guest comes to visit... worms!

Worm Party

When Camilla's ring gets stuck on her hand, Elinor comes up with a slimy way to help out.

A Slimy Solution

Olive and Ari have a change of heart when they see creatures helping each other.

Unusual Friends

When they lose a frisbee, Elinor, Ari, and Olive go on a journey through the meadow.

Discovering the Meadow

Elinor and Olive face a fear of heights and take a ride in Ms. Mole's hot air balloon.

A Hot Air Balloon Ride

Elinor, Ari, and Olive notice that birds fly at different heights for different reasons.

Finding Chickee

Elinor, Ari, Olive, and Siggy sneak by Ms. Mole to surprise her for Teachers Day.

A Teachers Day Surprise

Elinor, Ari, and Olive follow a cricket outside to figure out why it makes noise.

Music of Crickets

When Olive plays violin for Elinor and Ari, she gets interrupted by a mysterious sound.

Violin Practice

Ms. Beaver shows Elinor, Ari, and Olive how to make a strawberry smoothie - yum!

Strawberry Smoothies

Elinor, Olive, Ari, and Koa find and observe a hungry lizard together.

One Hungry Lizard

With inspiration from different birds, Elinor, Ari, and Olive make their own nest.

Time to Build!

Elinor, Olive, and Ari take inspiration from a family of ducks to make their own nest.

Duck Observations

Siggy shows Elinor, Ari, and Olive how squirrels can move without being noticed.

Super Spy

After a big bite of an apple, Ari's wiggly tooth falls out!

Ari's Loose Tooth

After a fire burns down part of the forest, Elinor learns about how forests can regrow.

Forests Can Grow Back

Elinor, Olive, and Ari observe some birds and see how they're like baby Miri and Ari.

Baby Bird, Big Kid Bird

Ari reflects on how Miri needs extra help as a baby, and his role as a big brother.

Baby Miri, Brother Ari

When Elinor sees a plant on a tree, she wonders how it can grow without being in soil!

A Misty Mystery

Mr. Beaver shows Elinor, Olive, and Ari how he makes crayons with wax and dye.

How a Crayon Gets Made

The kids visit the farm's apiary where they learn how bees make honey and wax.

Where Does Honey Come From?

When Elinor's shell walks away, the kids observe that the shell is actually a hermit crab.

The Shell Mystery

The kids meet a new friend, Rudy, who demonstrates his amazing sense of smell!

Super Sniffer

Elinor and friends are amazed to see a fish that can jump out of the water.

Jumping Fish

Ms. Mole teaches Elinor and friends all about springtime ponds.

The Springtime Pond

Elinor and friends talk about what they're going to be for insect day.

Insect Day

Elinor and friends see one of their plants is growing differently than the others.

The Zig Zag Plant

Elinor and friends use camouflage to play hide and seek.

Hide and Seek!

Ms. Mole teaches the kids all about the camouflage of an octopus.

The Amazing Hidden Octopus

Elinor tries to decide what to wear to costume day at school.

What to wear on Costume Day?

When Elinor can't sleep, she and Ranger Rabbit go outside to explore the forest at night!

Nighttime Exploration!

Elinor and friends learn how to hide by observing camouflaged animals.

Camouflage all around us!

Elinor and friends love the Fall breeze - who knew that the wind could be so interesting?

A Windy Walk

Elinor, Ari, and Olive are excited because they each get to take a plant home from school!

Plant Day!

Elinor is disappointed to get a cactus for Plant Day, until she makes some observations!

Getting to Know Plants

Elinor, Ari, and Olive brainstorm how to keep Mr. Raccoon's sign from being blown away.