Zig Zag: Computers

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started21st Nov 1983

ended28th Nov 1983

last rpt13th Nov 1985

3 school years

episodes2

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceComputers

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

Zig Zag

Previous unit: Hungry TimesNext unit: Space

Computers is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Zig Zag from the 1980s, covering computers for Primary pupils.

A state-of-the-art look at early 1980s computer technology for junior pupils, including computer games, robotic arms and a flight simulator, and ways that schools have used computers to help with their projects on The Normans.

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	Computers in Society	#1983-11-21-00-00-0021 Nov 1983
2.	Computers in Schools	#1983-11-28-00-00-0028 Nov 1983

Video

Watch a clip on Twitter Half of the second episode, about computers in schools.

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OTD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OTD</a> 1983: Zig Zag looked at some of the thrilling developments in Normans-related educational computer software <a href="https://t.co/VbFByaPL4L">pic.twitter.com/VbFByaPL4L</a>
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/935539754107637762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2017</a>

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1983-84	Autumn 1983	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 2:40pm			BBC2
1985-86	Autumn 1985	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 2:40pm			BBC2

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey Paul Coia
Producer	David Meldrum

Resources

There were teacher's notes 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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