2024 Volume 80 Issue 27 Article ID: 24-27035
To examine the current situation and trends of disaster prevention education at school events, we conducted text mining particularly addressing social facility tours, Saturday classes, and evacuation drills described on the websites of Osaka municipal elementary schools during the 2022 fiscal year. Results showed that students engaged in hands-on learning at a disaster prevention experience facility in Osaka City during a social facility tour. During Saturday classes, training such as disaster prevention studies, evacuation drills, returning home in groups, and student–parent pick-up drills were conducted cooperatively with the elementary school and the local community, taking advantage of the district characteristics. Evacuation drills were often held on Saturdays, in January, and before the rainy season and typhoons. For typhoons, the students participated in training of returning home in groups and the Osaka 8.8 million drill. The use of the Osaka City Disaster Prevention Experience Facility, Saturday classes held in cooperation with the local community in each ward, and three-stage tsunami evacuation drills were particularly noteworthy.
