[G-03] Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Education

[G03-P05] Disseminating the "connection between schoolwork and disaster prevention" to junior and senior high school students via Instagram

*Natsuko Matsushita¹, Naoto Kinno¹, Haruka Momma¹, Shoya Tanaka¹, Taichi Miyagishi¹, Osamura Kosei¹, Yuu Hachiya¹, Yuto Yamano¹, Taiga Saito¹, Toshiki Saito¹, Riichi Sugai¹, Ryota Maeda¹, Atsuya Ikemoto¹, Michihiko Nakamura¹ (1.Tohoku University)

Keywords:Disaster prevention education, Instagram, Cross-curriculum learning

HagiiZ is a project team by graduate students in the SyDE (Sustainability in the Dynamic Earth) program at Tohoku University. The members' fields of study are diverse, ranging from science (geophysics), engineering (civil engineering, material engineering), arts and letters (behavioral science, psychology), and environmental science. In addition to natural disasters such as climate change, earthquakes, and volcanoes, Japan is also at risk from epidemics in recent years. To comprehensively address these risks, this project is considering developing outreach activities.
One of the activities is planned to target junior and senior high school students, using Instagram to communicate the connection between the subjects they study at school and disaster prevention. The objective is to familiarize junior and senior high school students, who are the future leaders of society, with the risks of disasters around them. Graduate students, who are in close position to junior and senior high school students, can demonstrate the fact that subjects studied up to high school are not "study for exams" but "the basis of academic fields that are useful in society." Taking advantage of the diversity of the project members' fields of study, the project aims to cover a wide range of subjects, both in the humanities and sciences.
This presentation will provide an overview of the project and its prospects.