Development of Learning Media to Increase Understanding of Natural Disasters for Early Childhood Euis Kurniati (a*), Mirawati (b), Novitasari (c), Ratna Dwi Nurcahyani (d), Rudiyanto (e), Fitri Andriani(f), Dina Kusumanita Nur Alfaeni (g)
Early Childhood Education Department
School of Postgraduate
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Indonesia is a region prone to natural disasters such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods. This condition encourages the community, including children, to have insight, understanding and preparedness for possible disasters around them. Understanding of disasters in early childhood needs to be supported by learning media following their characteristics. Using Educational Based Research research design and analyzed by 8 teachers, this research focuses on developing instructional media that can be used to improve early childhood understanding of disasters. The results showed that there were 4 (four) learning media developed, namely storybooks, posters, songs and videos. Disaster storybooks include (1) Because of Garbage, (2) Let^s Protect Our Sea, (3) Landslides and Planting Trees, and (4) Corona. The posters developed through this research are (1) Flood Alert, (2) Natural Disaster Characteristics, (3) Earthquake Alert, (4) Coronavirus Prevention. Meanwhile, three songs were created with the title- (1) Floods, (2) Sorting Garbage, (3) Avoid Corona, while the animated video entitled Knowing Flood Disaster. According to the teacher^s analysis results, the developed storybooks, posters, songs, and animated videos have material related to disasters, which are attractive and useful for children^s understanding of disasters. This research is expected to contribute to strengthening disaster mitigation in educational institutions, especially PAUD (early childhood education) institutions, so that they can increase the level of preparedness for natural disasters in Indonesia.
Keywords: learning media, mitigation, disaster, early childhood
