To learn about climate change, students participate in activities both inside and outside of the classroom. Lessons foster a variety of creative skills such as writing short stories, creating posters, photography, painting, and posting on social media. Students explore the surrounding forest, identify and protect bird habitats, and plant trees. Lessons learned from the ‘climate care school’ curriculum at Madrasah Tsanawiyah are being shared in a variety of ways, including a book published as part of the case study, to support further uptake.

In addition to using nature as a pedagogical tool, climate change education at the school also incorporates Indigenous knowledges and local adaptation. The case study found that the school community sees local knowledge as important because it helps ensure climate change education is relevant to the community’s culture and traditions. For example, students learn how their ancestors cared for the environment through Javanese wayang, a traditional form of storytelling through puppetry. Children are also taught skills that link livelihoods, such as agroforestry and coffee production, with climate change adaptation and mitigation practices. School lessons also stop at noon to allow students to return home to work in the fields.