Zig Zag: Trees and Man

📺BBC Schools TV

companyBBC

started10th Jun 1991

ended17th Jun 1991

last rpt16th Jun 1993

3 school years

episodes2

duration20 mins

subject 👨‍🔬ScienceNature

age rangeAge 7-9

languageenIn English

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

A look at children planting trees in the countryside introduces a two part serialisation of the Oscar-winning animated film The Man Who Planted Trees from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, telling the story of a shepherd who transforms an arid wilderness.

The Man Who Planted Trees
Sheelagh with real trees

Episode List

#	Title	Broadcast
1.	The Man Who Planted Trees 1	#1991-06-10-00-00-0010 Jun 1991
2.	The Man Who Planted Trees 2	#1991-06-17-00-00-0017 Jun 1991

Broadcasts

Year	Term	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Channel	Details
1990-91	Summer 1991	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2
1992-93	Summer 1993	Monday, 11:00am		Wednesday, 1:40pm			BBC2

Credits

Presenter	Sheelagh Gilbey
Series Producer	Tom Stanier

Resources

There were teacher's notes available.

Links

Trees and Man on the Internet Movie DatabaseDetails of the original Canadian short film

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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Ecosystems

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Storytelling

Animation

Stop motion drawn animation

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