Teaching children disaster planning at Te Papa 'improves adult knowledge'

Teaching children how to prepare for disaster helps improve the knowledge of their parents and teachers too, a Te Papa study has found.

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Through the Awesome Forces exhibition, children learn why New Zealand experiences natural disasters and how to behave in an emergency, and then are encouraged to take their new-found knowledge home.

MacDonald found the disaster programme "significantly increased student knowledge of disaster preparedness compared to the control group" and improved teacher and parent knowledge and behaviour.

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