Zig Zag: Mapmakers!

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started1st Nov 1993

ended29th Nov 1993

last rpt17th Jun 2005(on CBBC)

12 school years

episodes5

duration20 mins

subject 🌏Geography

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

2 images from Mapmakers!

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Mapmakers! is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s & 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.

A guide to mapping skills in which Sally Gray drives round the country challenging local schoolchildren to use different techniques to create maps of their local areas in Somerset, Lancashire and Aberdeen.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Village View	#1993-11-01-00-00-001 Nov 1993
2.	Town and Around	#1993-11-08-00-00-008 Nov 1993
3.	City Limits	#1993-11-15-00-00-0015 Nov 1993
4.	Map Messages	#1993-11-22-00-00-0022 Nov 1993
5.	Mapping the Future	#1993-11-29-00-00-0029 Nov 1993

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1993-94	Autumn 1993	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2
1995-96	Spring 1996	Monday, 11:05am		Wednesday, 1:20pm			BBC2
2001-02	Summer 2002					Friday, 11:50am	BBC2

Nightschool TV

Also broadcast overnight on BBC2 in the 'Nightschool TV' strand:

• 1994-95: Spring 1995, Wednesday 8th February 1995 from 2am
• 1995-96: Autumn 1995, Wednesday 1st November 1995 from 2am

CBBC Channel

Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes:

• 2002-03: Summer 2003
• 2003-04: Summer 2004
• 2004-05: Summer 2005

(this list may be incomplete)

Credits

Presenter	Sally Gray
Music	Wayne Unwin
Consultant	Steve Harrison
Executive Producer	Frank Flynn
Producer & director	David Scott-Cowan

Resources

There were teacher's notes, a Video Plus Pack (called Maps and Mapping), photocopymasters and a Factfinders book (called Maps) available.

Links

• Mapmakers! on the Internet Movie Database

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

Topics

School topics covered in this programme. Click to find other programmes covering the same topics, but bear in mind topics are a new addition to the site in 2023 and not many are set up yet.

Geographical skills and fieldwork

Local studies

Map reading

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Repeated in the 21st century

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