Development of The OrSAEv Learning Materials: Preliminary Study of Student’s Knowledge about Earthquake and Tsunami Mitigation

Abstract

Geologically, Indonesia is a disaster-prone country, especially tsunami. As a country has kind of disaster and so in the schools of Indonesia should be started to give education of hazard. Therefore, this study aims to determine the level of student knowledge about the earthquake and tsunami disasters, know the experience of students facing earthquake and tsunami disasters, and determine the conditions of counseling and disaster learning that have been applied in school. This type of research is a quantitative descriptive. The subjects of this study were 28 students of MTsN 7 Blitar. Data collection techniques carried out by observation, tests, and questionnaires. The sample of respondents was taken by purposive sampling based on advice from the science teacher at MTsN 7 Blitar. The results of the study are as follows: 1) In terms of the level of student knowledge about the earthquake and tsunami disasters can be categorized as less. 2) student’s experiences in facing with disasters and actions to save themselves in situations and conditions are categorized as not ready. 3) Disaster counseling and learning activities have never been carried out. After adding up the average percentage of each indicator, it is found that the knowledge and preparedness of the community in dealing with the earthquake and tsunami disaster based on their knowledge is still in the category of less prepared with a percentage of 47.9%, so there is still a need for better knowledge and readiness for students reach the level of full preparedness in the face of disaster. Learning methods and materials are needed that can be used to increase student knowledge about earthquake and tsunami mitigations. Therefore, it can be concluded that disaster learning materials need to be developed.