Guidelines for developing and implementing Disaster Risk Reduction Education in Elementary School Curriculum

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Reference number: 2023-2-CY01-KA210-SCH-000169945

Project title: “STEAME for Saving Life: Guidelines for developing and implementing Disaster Risk Reduction Education in Elementary School Curriculum”

Project Acronym: STEAME-DRREC

STEAME-DRREC project aims at developing dynamic cross-curriculum digital guidelines and activities related to the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Education for Elementary Students, utilizing the intradisciplinary STEAME methodology (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship) and the inquiry-based, context based and problem-solving based approaches. The activities will provide students the opportunity to improve their knowledge and understanding about natural hazards and the consequences they cause, and to help them to develop a sustainable behaviour culture and the life-skills required to prevent natural hazards from turning into disasters and to better protect themselves and others. All the activities will be developed in line to the inclusive and multicultural education, to help all students to actively participate in teaching and learning. STEAME-DRREC also intends to develop and assess teaching models that effectively embed this kind of activities into current curricula using high technology tools and thus, contributing towards the digital transformation of primary education. 

STEAME-DRREC outcomes are: 

(a) O1: Guidelines for a dynamic and adaptive framework of DRR Education Curricula. 

(b) O2: A set of STEAME DRR activities for elementary school students. 

(c) O3: Guidelines and modules for a teachers’ training program. 

Implementation period: 31 August 2024 – 30 August 2026