The Models Which Raise Efficiency in Disaster Awareness Trainings

Disasters, depending on the type and nature, cause significant physical, economic and social losses. Being ready for disasters is the most basic way to prevent or reduce the destruction caused by disasters. Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) carries out various activities in order to prevent the transformation of natural events into disasters. For example, AFAD Earthquake Simulation Center, which was established in Ankara in 2003 to raise public awareness, has trained many students and civil servants of all ages to date. There are many models specially designed and produced by instructors for use in AFAD's trainings. In this study, the design and production processes of the "Earth Shell Layer Model" and " Earthquake shock table model that can be building design on it" are explained. These models that enable participants to be included in the process and become involved in disaster awareness trainings; arouses interest, materializes abstract things, saves time and can be used again and again. It is thought that these models can be used in earthquake awareness training throughout Turkey. Therefore, these materials, which can be modeled easily, can be produced in needed educational institutions, civil society or public institutions and more people can become conscious about experience