David Bild
Chicago Academy of Sciences,
Chicago,
IL
USA
Biographical Sketch: David Bild, Senior Museum Educator Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. David has been working at the Nature Museum since Fall 2011. His work focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of formal and nonformal programming for middle to high school-aged students, and professional development for middle school teachers. David is also a part-time faculty member of the Environmental Sciences & Studies Department at DePaul University, teaching an undergraduate experiential learning course in Environmental Education on behalf of the Nature Museum. Prior to joining the Nature Museum, David taught 7th
Phoenix, Arizona for two years. David was a Teach for America corps member and earned his Master’s
of Education (MEd) in Secondary Education from Arizona State University in 2011. Before becoming a formal educator, David was an archaeologist in the Southwest US and Mexico for 10 years, supervising survey and excavation projects for academic institutions, government agencies, and environmental consulting firms. David earned his BS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Engaging Youth in Nature Through Urban Environmental Science