Students in Spain will teach schools how to cope with the disasters of the climate crisis

The Spanish authorities connected Thursday unveiled an acquisition program for children aimed astatine preparing them to header with earthy disasters specified arsenic floods, fires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

The program was announced aft a summertime marked by wood fires that claimed the lives of 4 radical and little than a twelvemonth aft catastrophic floods successful eastbound Spain that claimed much than 220 lives.

According to the Ministry of Education, the extremity is to supply schools with a grooming bundle that promotes the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to woody safely and efficaciously with emergencies. The programme volition screen not lone earthy disasters, but besides chemical, concern and atomic accidents, arsenic good arsenic incidents involving the proscription of hazardous materials.

More than 8 cardinal children successful 25,000 schools volition be the mandatory training, which volition beryllium delivered done video, graphics and different media. Kindergarten and simple schoolhouse students volition person astatine slightest 2 hours of instruction, portion older students volition person astatine slightest 4 hours.

The ministry explained that kindergarten children (ages 3-5) volition larn to admit an alarm and the archetypal signs of danger, portion older students volition larn to question higher crushed successful lawsuit of a flood oregon instrumentality structure nether a table if an earthquake starts.

In addition, students volition beryllium trained to separate betwixt accusation and disinformation successful emergencies. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking astatine the motorboat of the programme, said the acquisition inaugural aims to amended prepare children and young people to respond arsenic champion arsenic imaginable to situations intensified by the clime crisis.