The kids decide to make a sci-fi movie, but after Shania gets a bad mark on a project about volcanoes, Grandma threatens to ground her from the junkyard for a whole month. Anne and Nick discover a way to help Shania fix her grades and make a movie about it along the way.

When Nick's Dad cancels a winter getaway up North, Nick is upset. Anne and Shania try to make it up to Nick by building a machine that demonstrates the phases of matter to make snow and ice -- so that the kids and androids can have a winter celebration at the junkyard.