Recently, there have been a number of moves to encourage the development of approaches to science teaching that emphasise its links with other curriculum subjects. This article describes the rationale of one such project for 11- to 16-year-olds: the Broadening Secondary School Science (BRaSSS) project. We situate the project in the history of interdisciplinarity in science education, explain the principles that underpin the project and describe the extensive materials that have been produced and are now freely available for others to use
