<![CDATA[Environmental degradation demands education that not only enhances scientific understanding but also fosters environmental awareness. However, research shows that prospective teachers still have naive conceptions of the Nature of Science (NOS) and low environmental awareness. The application of a case design method enriched with environmental wisdom in order to improve students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) and environmental awareness. With a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design, a total of 200 students of the Elementary Education Study Program at the University of Lampung participated in five CBL sessions that raised local environmental issues, while the control group received conventional lecture-based learning. The results showed that the experimental group obtained a significant increase in NOS understanding (n-gain = 62.92) and environmental awareness (n-gain = 67.67) compared to the control group. In addition, students reported positive perceptions of CBL, especially in increasing engagement, motivation, and relevance through the integration of environmental wisdom. These findings demonstrate that integrating environmental wisdom into case-based learning can enhance understanding of NOS and environmental awareness, and has the potential to be implemented more broadly in the curriculum of prospective teacher education to equip them with the competencies to face the challenges of drought in a transformative and culturally responsive.]]>
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