Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025

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[O-04] Can you survive natural disasters by learning in school?

Sun. May 25, 2025 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM Poster Hall (Exhibition Hall 7&8, Makuhari Messe)

convener:Hiroo Nemoto(Ritsumeikan University), Miwa Kuri(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), Yutaka TAKAHASHI(Toshimagaoka-joshigakuen), Ryuta YAMAMOTO(Education Center for Regional Development)

5:15 PM - 7:15 PM

[O04-P02] Let's consider again from learning earthquake disasters using revised textbooks of rika, natural science, in schools

★Invited Papers

*Hiroo Nemoto1 (1.Ritsumeikan University)

Keywords:revised textbooks, rika (natural science) and earth science, earthquake, earthquake disaster

In this session of the JpGU Meeting 2023, "O-03 Can you survive natural disasters by learning in school?", we considered the current status and issues of learning about earthquake disasters (Nemoto, 2023). Incidentally, school textbooks in primary and secondary schools in Japan are revised in principle every four years. After 2023 school year, the revised textbooks are in use from 2024 school year in primary schools and from 2025 school year in lower secondary schools. Therefore, we would like to consider again the following things using the revised textbooks;
- Are the concrete learning contents decided in primary and lower secondary schools which are compulsory education in Japan?
- Has it been decided what the pupils should learn about natural disasters?
- Has it been decided what the pupils should learn about natural disasters in RIKA, which is roughly translated natural science?
- Are all students who belong to upper secondary schools in Japan supposed to learn about natural disasters?
We need to work towards improvement of educational issue about natural disasters in schools through the search for answers to above questions. Firstly, therefore, I will explain the contents briefly in revised textbooks and comparison of former and current version textbooks using earthquake as the key word. Secondary, I would like to consider to what extent we can obtain the knowledge and so forth to survive earthquake disasters from learning at schools with everybody in this room.


References
NEMOTO, Hiroo (2021): Treatment of earthquake and its disaster prevention in primary and lower secondary school science in the 2017 standard curricula, the 2021 Seismological Society of Japan fall meeting, S18-04.
NEMOTO, Hiroo (2022): Earthquake and its disaster in science textbooks for lower secondary school published in 2021: Contents and problems, 2022 JpGU meeting, O05-06.
NEMOTO, Hiroo (2022): Earthquake and its disaster in earth science textbooks for upper secondary school published in 2022: Contents and problems, IX GeoSciEd, Poster_15.
NEMOTO, Hiroo (2022): Earthquake and its disaster in the 2022 edition of “Basic Earth Science (Chigaku Kiso)” textbooks: Contents and problems, the 2022 Japan Society of Earth Science Education meeting, MH_15.
NEMOTO, Hiroo (2023): Let’s consider from learning earthquake disasters using textbooks of RIKA, natural science, in schools, 2023 JpGU meeting, O03-02.
NEMOTO, Hiroo (submitted): Earthquake disasters in earth science textbooks for upper secondary schools published in 2022: Contents and problems, Education of Earth Science.