Zig Zag: The Eskimos

	Talk, Write... and Read
	ITV Schools
	1986-1999
	English

	Sain, Cerdd a Chân
	BBC Schools Radio
	1959-1985
	Music

	Ways with Words (1983)
	ITV Schools
	1983-1993
	English

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started14th Jan 1985

ended25th Feb 1985

last rpt12th Jun 1987

3 school years

episodes6

duration20 mins

subject 🌏GeographySocial Studies

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

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The Eskimos is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s, covering social studies for primary school pupils.

A look at how people live in arctic conditions and how life works for modern Inuit people in Canada, including interviews with the women and children living in Canada in the 1980s

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	The Arctic	#1985-01-14-00-00-0014 Jan 1985
2.	At Home on the Ice	#1985-01-21-00-00-0021 Jan 1985
3.	Sedna and the Seals	#1985-01-28-00-00-0028 Jan 1985
4.	The Coming of the Caribou	#1985-02-04-00-00-004 Feb 1985
5.	Women and Children	#1985-02-11-00-00-0011 Feb 1985
6.	The Eskimos Today	#1985-02-25-00-00-0025 Feb 1985

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Wed	Fri	Channel	Details
1984-85	Spring 1985	Monday, 11:00am	Wednesday, 2:40pm		BBC2
1986-87	Spring 1987	Monday, 11:00am	Wednesday, 2:15pm		BBC2
1986-87	Summer 1987		Wednesday, 1:38pm	Friday, 10:15am	BBC2	Subtitle Slot

Credits

Presenter	Paul Coia
Series Producer	Tom Stanier
Producers	Chris Ellis Rosanna Hibbert John Chapple Diane Morgan

Resources

There were teacher's notes and a project book available.

Project book

Related programmes

Zig Zag: CanadaZig Zag returned to Canada to look at other aspects of life there a few years later.

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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