Abstract
We created teaching materials compiling topographic and geological conditions and disaster histories (e.g., earthquakes and tsunamis, heavy rains, storm surges) in each region and conducted visiting classes to students and disaster education to teaching staff to return the latest research outcome on disaster science to the local community. As an example for such activity, we report the summary of the disaster education for teaching staffs at a high school in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture. In the disaster education for teachers, we explained the causes of inundation due to the most recent heavy rain in the region in July 2020, the assumption of each disaster to create a hazard map in Fukuoka Prefecture, issues of school disaster prevention, and important points for creating manuals for disaster prevention. After the disaster education, a questionnaire survey was conducted to evaluate this initiative and extract the problems. Our efforts are expected to contribute improving the capabilities for crisis management and the ability of teaching staffs to respond to disasters.
