Zig Zag: Water, Air, Land

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC Wales

started12th Jan 1998

ended9th Feb 1998

last rpt16th May 2006on CBBC

9 school years

episodes5

duration20 mins

subject 🌏GeographyEnvironment

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

Previous unit: InvadersNext unit: Tudor Life

Primary Geography

Previous unit: Shorts: World Environmental ChangesNext unit: Portrait of Europe

Water, Air and Land is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s & 2000s, covering the environment for primary school pupils.

A unit of programmes about environmental sustainability. A presenter known as The Director co-ordinates young Zig Zag investigators in Cardiff, Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire and Spain, looking at how people use water, air and land, and deal with waste, in ways that don't destroy the environment.

Primary Geography

In 2003 this unit was repeated as part of the new series Primary Geography, with amended opening titles but otherwise intact.

Titles & Theme Music

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Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Environmental Change	#1998-01-12-00-00-0012 Jan 1998
2.	Using the World's Resources	#1998-01-19-00-00-0019 Jan 1998
3.	Waste	#1998-01-26-00-00-0026 Jan 1998
4.	Guarding the Future	#1998-02-02-00-00-002 Feb 1998
5.	Conflicts	#1998-02-09-00-00-009 Feb 1998

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1997-98	Spring 1998	Monday, 11:20am		Thursday, 11:15am		BBC2
1998-99	Spring 1999	Monday, 11:20am		Thursday, 11:15am		BBC2
1999-2000	Spring 2000	Monday, 11:10am	Wednesday, 11:20am			BBC2
2000-01	Spring 2001		Wednesday, 11:50am			BBC2
2001-02	Spring 2002				Friday, 11:50am	BBC2
2002-03	Summer 2003	Monday, 11:50am				BBC2	Primary Geography

CBBC Channel

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

As a unit of Zig Zag:

2001-02: Summer 2002
2002-03: Autumn 2002

Then as a unit of Primary Geography:

2003-04: Autumn 2003
2004-05: Autumn 2004
2005-06: Autumn 2005, Spring & Summer 2006

Credits

Presenter	Griff Rowland Williams as The Director
Executive Producer	Liz Cleaver for BBC Education Dai Williams
Producer & director	Dafydd Llŷr James

Resources

There were teacher's notes , a resource pack and a Video Plus pack available.

Related programmes

Zig Zag: Village, Town, CityAnother geography unit from the same production team.

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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