The New Trend of Disaster Mitigation Education in Japan

In order to record the experiences of Kobe Earthquake, the high school students talk their experiences to the pupils of an elementary school nearby. They also teach the children what they learned at high school. Teaching small children is very difficult but helpful for the high school students to deepen their knowledge and work out the device for the children's better understanding.

Pupils from 3rd grade to 6th grade join this activity. There are various practices we have done so far; safety map-making, story-telling of Kobe Earthquake by the high school students, explanation of Kobe Earthquake using wall newspapers, plain science experiments like liquefaction, and so on.

The high school students can consolidate what they have learned. The children become more interested in learning from the high school students. The children are sure to talk at home what they learned at school. Disaster mitigation spread from children to the family, from the family to the community.