Travis Elementary SPARK Park

Video features a Landscape Structures playground at Travis Elementary Spark Park in Houston Texas.

[video: scene fades into an elevated view of a playground tower structure filled with playing children. Camera switches to a ground view panning left to right as children play on monkey bars, climb, up stairs, and l log steppers. A girl climbs in a half moon shaped climber activity with cargo ropes. A girl talks to the camera bout her favorite thing on the playground.]

Girl: I really really really love the little spinning thing over there.

[video: girl spins on a stand-up spinner.

Girl 2: And my favorite thing about the playground is the huge slide over there.

[video: a child rides down a tall spiral slide on the playground tower.]

Girl 3: Probably like the spinning thing or the tire swing, because they’re just fun to play on with my friends.

[video: a girl pushes her friends on the tire swing.]

Girl 4: Probably either the tire swing or the climbing thing over there.

[video: a girl climbs up a cargo net attached to a half-moon shaped frame.]

Girl 5: My favorite thing is the monkey bars and the light green spinney thing.

[video: young girl spins on the stand-up spinner as other children play on the playground structure in the background. Camera pans up to a girl as she climbs a honeycomb like climber. Scene switches to a bird’s eye fly view over the tops of the structure towers. The roof of the towers are designed to look like the tops of tall trees. A boy climbs up wood planks. A girl screams in the background as a boy jumps up onto the playground decking. With an elevated view camera pans from the ground up to the roof of the main tower structure. Two girls ride down together on a dual laned slide. A boy walks across a wave shaped climber made up of different sized wood planks. Camera flies past the top level of the tower structure. Two girls stand at the wood plank siding peaking just over the top. A girl runs her hands over a panel filled with clear marbles.]

Girl: I really like these, they’re really fun. Watch all the lines go in different ways.

[video: children point to a seek and find panel with different animal tracks displayed on them.]

Girl: And you search for them on the playground.

Girl 2: The circles ones are the ones that are…

[video: a child points to a medallion on a playground post that has one of the seek and find animal tracks posted on it.]

Girl: And you can find them all over the playground.

[video: camera zooms in close as a child points to a different medallion on a different playground post.]

Girl: Right here.

Boy: And we know where the wild turkey is.

[video: children look at the seek and find panel up on the tower structure.]

Boy off camera: And then I know where another one is.

[video: children point at a seek and find medallion on a wood plank panel.]

Girl off camera: We found the black bear!

[video: a group of children climb together on the half moon shape cargo net climber. Camera flies past the tower structure showing children play all around the play area. Scene fades to black and bacvk into a boy pushing his friend on a tire swing. Scene fades to black and then back into a class of children smiling and waving to the camera. Screen jumps to white. A black vertical line appears in the center of the screen. The Lone Star Recreation logo slides out from the black line to the right of the screen. Then the Landscape Structures logo slides out to the left of the line. The black line morphs into a plus sign. Screen fades to black and video ends.]