Zig Zag: Technology

	Science - Start Here!
	ITV Schools, Channel 4 Schools
	1987-1994
	Science

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	1997
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	1999-2005
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📺BBC Schools TV

started16th Sep 1991

ended14th Oct 1991

last rpt23rd Oct 1991

1 school year

episodes5

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceTechnology

age rangeAge 8-10Age 7-9 & Age 9-11

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

Previous unit: Trees and ManNext unit: Tales from Europe (1992)

Technology is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s, covering technology for primary school pupils.

Programmes on various aspects of technology such as how a bicycle works, how a supermarket is operated, and techniques used in a theatre.

A teachers' programme about this unit was shown as part of Teaching Today.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Home Technology	#1991-09-16-00-00-0016 Sep 1991
2.	Transport Technology	#1991-09-23-00-00-0023 Sep 1991
3.	Shopping Technology	#1991-09-30-00-00-0030 Sep 1991
4.	Swimming Technology	#1991-10-07-00-00-007 Oct 1991
5.	Showbiz Technology	#1991-10-14-00-00-0014 Oct 1991
-	Technology (Teaching Today)	#1991-09-27-00-00-0027 Sep 1991

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1991-92	Autumn 1991	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2

The Teaching Today programme was broadcast on Fridays 27th September & 18th October 1991 at 9:15am.

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey
Series Producer	Tom Stanier
Producer	Roger Fry

Resources

There were teacher's notes and a book available.

Related programmes

Zig Zag: Making It WorkAnother Zig Zag unit on design and technology, sometimes billed as Zig Zag Technology.

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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Design and technology

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