Improving natural disater understanding of junior high school students

Abstract

Natural disaster management efforts are critical, especially in disaster-prone areas. One of them is carried out through education in schools. This study aims to implement disaster mitigation teaching media, analyze and compare the effectiveness rate of these implementations in Klaten Regency. This study was carried out quantitatively using the one-group pretest and posttest design. Respondents were determined by purposive sampling based on the location of schools in areas prone to natural disaster in the Klaten Regency. They consist of 704 students, 291 students were respondents of intracurricular learning, and 413 students were respondents of extracurricular learning. The study results showed that of all instructional media applied in disaster mitigation learning strategies, five learning media had the best effectiveness, namely volcanic mock-ups, animated videos, presentation slides, supplementary books, and posters. Furthermore, there were differences in the effectiveness of implementation, namely in intracurricular including volcanic mock-ups by 37.5%, earthquake video by 24.8%, landslide video by 25.7%, and floods slide presentation by 59.9%. Extracurricular include volcanic eruption video by 41.6%, earthquake video by 27.3%, floods supplementary book by 35.3%, hydrometeorological poster by 46.7%. An interesting finding was that the effectiveness of learning strategies with advanced digital media was not better than other simpler instructional media.