Interdisciplinary means combining two or more different subjects or fields of study to understand something more completely. When you work in an interdisciplinary way, you're drawing on knowledge from multiple areas instead of sticking to just one.

Think about designing a video game. You need computer programming to make it work, art to create the graphics, music for the soundtrack, storytelling to build the plot, and psychology to understand what makes games fun. A team working on this game would be doing interdisciplinary work because they're blending all these different fields together.

Scientists often work this way too. A researcher studying climate change might need biology to understand how plants and animals are affected, chemistry to analyze air samples, mathematics to model future temperatures, and geography to map the changes. No single discipline gives the complete picture.

Schools sometimes create interdisciplinary projects where you might use math skills to analyze data from a history project or combine science knowledge with creative writing to explain how ecosystems work.

This approach recognizes that real problems don't fit neatly into separate subjects. The most interesting questions often require knowledge from multiple fields working together.