A time of upheaval and innovation, the American Colonial Period (1600-1775) was marked by New World settlers' struggles to adapt to a life that lacked anything familiar or prefabricated. The period provides a rich opportunity to study the contributions of the colonists across multiple disciplines. In the fall of 2003, a team of eighth-grade teachers at Washington Junior High School in Toledo, Ohio, constructed a unit on Colonial life that spanned five disciplines: family and consumer sciences, history, language arts, science, and math. Prior to the field trip, students in family and consumer sciences class learned how Colonial women and children reused and borrowed fabric to make patchwork quilts that kept them warm and preserved their family's history and memories. In history class, students compared and contrasted lifestyles in the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies. In language arts class, students studied Patrick Henry's and Samuel Adams' persuasive techniques that convinced their fellow colonists to oppose British policies. In science class, students explored the contributions of Colonial scientists and examined those ideas and inventions that helped shape the era. In math class, students charted Early American iron ore export data from 1732-1756 on stem-and-leaf and box-and-whisker plots and then wrote a brief description of the graphs, explaining how to interpret them. This multi-disciplinary study provided an opportunity for instructors to truly work together and to find connections between their own subjects. Students benefited by achieving a deeper, more complex understanding of this significant time in American history.