Zig Zag: Gardens and Growth

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	BBC Schools TV
	1999-2005
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📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started29th Apr 1985

ended20th May 1985

last rpt20th May 1992

8 school years

episodes4

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceAgriculture

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

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Gardens and Growth is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s & 1990s, covering Agriculture for Primary pupils.

Programmes about growing plants and flowers told through the context of gardening, including plentiful timelapse film of plants growing, and retellings of stories about gardens including the Bible story of the Garden of Eden and the Greek myth of Persephone.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Seeds	#1985-04-29-00-00-0029 Apr 1985
2.	Plants	#1985-05-08-00-00-008 May 1985
3.	Flowers	#1985-05-13-00-00-0013 May 1985
4.	Fruits	#1985-05-20-00-00-0020 May 1985

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Wed	Channel
1984-85	Summer 1985	Monday, 11:00am	Wednesday, 2:40pm	BBC2
1987-88	Summer 1988	Monday, 11:00am	Wednesday, 1:38pm	BBC2
1991-92	Summer 1992	Monday, 11:00am	Wednesday, 1:40pm	BBC2

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey Paul Coia
Series Producer	Tom Stanier
Producer	Chris Ellis

Resources

There were teacher's notes and a project book (called Gardens) available.

Project book

Zig Zag (1983-2000)

Series Overview • Units • Episode List

Ancient Greece (1996) • The Anglo-Saxons (1992) • The Arabs (1984) • Art (1997) • Canada (1987) • Cathedrals (1989) • The Channel Tunnel (1987) • Computers (1983) • Danger Detectors (1996) • The Eskimos (1985) • Food and Farming (1995) • France (2000) • Gardens and Growth (1985) • Geography UK (1995) • Getting About (1988) • The Greeks (1986) • Hungry Times (1983) • Invaders (1997) • Kenya (1994-96) • Let's Face It (1990) • Making It Work (1997) • Mapmakers! (1993) • Mordicus (1986) • The Normans (1983) • The Odyssey (1990) • The Olympics (1984-92) • Over to You (1985-89) • Roman Britain (1993) • Rush, The Fallow Deer (1987) • The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair (1987) • Snapshots: Children in the Second World War (2000) • Space (1984-88) • Spaceship Earth (1986) • Tales from Europe (1992) • Tales from Europe (2000) • Technology (1991) • Topical Programmes (1985-89) • Trees (1993) • Trees and Man (1991) • Tudor Life (1998) • The Vikings (1987) • Village, Town, City (1997) • A Walk Through Time (1999) • Water (1990) • Water, Air, Land (1998) • Weather (1999) • Where You Live, Where I Live (1994) • Wildlife Safari (1989-91) • Winter Festival (1986) • World of Work (1989) • You and the Media (1986)

See also: Zig Zag Shorts • Landmarks • Primary Geography • Primary History

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