Zig Zag: Trees

📺BBC Schools TV

started26th Apr 1993

ended31st May 1993

last rpt10th Oct 2003(on the CBBC Channel)

12 school years

episodes6

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceNature

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

Previous unit: The Anglo-SaxonsNext unit: Roman Britain

Trees is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s and 2000s, covering nature for primary school pupils.

Zig Zag's nature specialist Nicola Davies looks at trees from many different angles, including how they grow from acorns or seeds, how they are used in making cricket bats or wood sculptures, for energy as charcoal, and to makepaper. Stories from around the world related to trees are narrated by Colin Baker.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	The Friends of Man	#1993-04-26-00-00-0026 Apr 1993
2.	From Little Acorns	#1993-05-05-00-00-005 May 1993
3.	Animal Lodgers: Life Around the Tree	#1993-05-10-00-00-0010 May 1993
4.	Timber, Friend of Man	#1993-05-17-00-00-0017 May 1993
5.	The Energy Power Pack	#1993-05-24-00-00-0024 May 1993
6.	Paper	#1993-05-31-00-00-0031 May 1993

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1992-93	Summer 1993	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2

CBBC Channel

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

2003-04: Autumn 2003

Credits

Presenter	Nicola Davies
Story narrator	Colin Baker
Series producer	Tom Stanier
Producer	Patricia Williams

Resources

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

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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