The late pathologist Arthur Aufderheide mused that “all knowledge is connected to other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.” In a world that has become so wonderfully globalized and richly interconnected, our long-held tradition of teaching in subject silos becomes increasingly irrelevant. Enter interdisciplinary education, a contemporary approach to teaching that seeks to combine two or more disciplines in order to connect, synthesize and contextualize teaching and learning. One such interdisciplinary approach is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), a particularly illustrious combination of specialties that has rapidly infiltrated everything from camps, to after-school programs, to the classroom itself.
