Zig Zag: Weather
Weather is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1990s & 2000s, covering geography for primary school pupils.
Children investigate different weather patterns with the help of BBC weather forecaster Helen Young and dramatic film from Australia and Canada.
Primary Geography
From 2005 this unit was repeated as part of the new series Primary Geography, which brought together geography programmes from Zig Zag and Landmarks. The opening titles were amended to add the Primary Geography logo at the start, but the programmes were otherwise intact.
In fact this was the very last unit of programmes technically to join the Primary Geography series, with the addition of the Primary Geography logo. Other, older geography units from Landmarks were subsequently repeated during the Primary Geography era, but without any amendments they remained simply repeats of Landmarks programmes.
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Temperature | 11 Jan 1999 |
| 2. | Rain | 18 Jan 1999 |
| 3. | Wind | 25 Jan 1999 |
| 4. | Seasons | 1 Feb 1999 |
| 5. | World Weather | 8 Feb 1999 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-99 | Spring 1999 | Monday, 11:20am | Thursday, 11:15am | BBC2 | ||||
| 1999-2000 | Spring 2000 | Tuesday, 11:20am | Thursday, 11:05am | BBC2 | ||||
| 2000-01 | Summer 2001 | Wednesday, 11:50am | BBC2 | |||||
| 2001-02 | Summer 2002 | Thursday, 11:30am | BBC2 | |||||
| 2005-06 | Autumn 2005 | Friday, 10:30am+ | BBC2 | Primary Geography | ||||
| 2007-08 | Spring 2008 | Friday, 10:30am | BBC2 | Primary Geography |
CBBC Channel
Also broadcast on the CBBC Channel 'Class TV' service of schools programmes:
- 2002-03: Summer 2003
- 2003-04: Autumn 2003
- 2004-05: Autumn 2004 & Spring 2005
- 2005-06: Autumn 2005
- 2006-07: Autumn 2006
Credits
| Presenter | Helen Young |
| Consultant | Chris Durbin |
| Education Officr | Shelagh Scarborough |
| Executive Producer | Clare Elstow |
| Producer | Michelle Jones |
Resources
There were teacher's notes, a resource pack, a Factfinders book and a Video Plus pack available.
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