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Interdisciplinary curriculum experiences provide an opportunity for a more relevant, less fragmented, and stimulating experience for students. When properly designed and when criteria for excellence are met (Chapter 4, Ackerman), then students break with the traditional view of knowledge and begin to actively foster a range of perspectives that will serve them in the larger world.

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Educators must demonstrate or model for students how to approach issues in an interdisciplinary fashion because discipline based learning is the standard teaching structure so they will be unfamiliar with how to synthesize or integrate insights from a range of disciplines into an inclusive framework of analysis.

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A business might use an interdisciplinary team of professionals to work on a complex project that requires multiple skills sets or areas of expertise in order to succeed.

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In interdisciplinary teaching, educators apply methods and language from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question, problem, topic, or experience.

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Students should be involved in the planning and development of interdisciplinary units

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Interdisciplinary curriculum experiences provide an opportunity for a more relevant, less fragmented, and stimulating experience for students. When properly designed and when criteria for excellence are met, then students break with the traditional view of knowledge and begin to actively foster a range of perspectives that will serve them in the larger world.

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Interdisciplinary curriculum experiences provide an opportunity for a more relevant, less fragmented, and stimulating experience for students. When properly designed and when criteria for excellence are met, then students break with the traditional view of knowledge and begin to actively foster a range of perspectives that will serve them in the larger world.

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West Virginia, project-based learning has been adopted as a statewide strategy for improving teaching and learning. Teachers don't have to look far to find good project ideas. In this CNN storyabout the state's educational approach, read about a project that grew out of a fender-bender in a school parking lot. When students were asked to come up with a better design for the lot, they applied their understanding of geometry, civics, law, engineering, and public speaking.

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Why Teach In an Interdisciplinary Fashion?An emerging viewpoint in higher education emphasizes that a thorough understanding of today's real life problems requires interdisciplinary reflection. 

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Why Teach In an Interdisciplinary Fashion?An emerging viewpoint in higher education emphasizes that a thorough understanding of today's real life problems requires interdisciplinary reflection. 

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Students who are regularly exposed to classroom conversations and assignments that tackle real-world problems in an interdisciplinary fashion; engage in significant learning, realize cognitive gains, and are better positioned to understand challenging problems and to frame viable solutions.

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Buying a Car—

Math: Interest rates, incentives, price.

Science: Technology involved in airbags, gas mileage, brakes.

Social studies: History of company, Kelly Blue Book.

Communication arts: Advertising, information, warranty, etc.

Reading: Search Internet for information. Ask sales staff questions.

Activity: Go to car dealer and go through process of picking out car/paperwork

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Interdisciplinary projects use various disciplines in combination to solve problems or consider issues that cannot be adequately addressed by any one of the disciplines alone

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A method, or set of methods, used to teach a unit across different curricular disciplines. For example, the seventh grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies teachers might work together to form aninterdisciplinary unit on rivers.

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A method, or set of methods, used to teach a unit across different curricular disciplines. For example, the seventh grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies teachers might work together to form aninterdisciplinary unit on rivers.

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Interdisciplinary curriculum designs have also been referred to as "fused" or "cross-curricular."

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Interdisciplinary curriculum designs have also been referred to as "fused" or "cross-curricular."

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Interdisciplinary curriculum design begins with particular disciplines and uses them to create new fields of inquiry, such as Art History or Environmental Studies, in which the individual disciplines are necessary -- but not alone sufficient -- for work within the new field of inquiry.

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Interdisciplinary curriculum design begins with particular disciplines and uses them to create new fields of inquiry, such as Art History or Environmental Studies, in which the individual disciplines are necessary -- but not alone sufficient -- for work within the new field of inquiry.