Geography is a good place for students with a wide range of abilities, because there are many opportunities for teachers to develop active learning experiences. Such activities often motivate less-able students to perform better. Field work is a common part of geography in other parts of the world but less common in our country. Field work means letting students use your locality to study geography. Students begin the study by walking around the school, then the school grounds, and finally the local area listing features they see and noting how land is used.
Students develop simple classifications of land use.
For example, in the school students see classroom space, library space, playground space, shared space, and so on. They can make maps or color maps given to them. Students of all abilities enjoy this kind of work. Making students cartographers is an idea borrowed from a friend who taught a transitional 5th-6th grade class with a high proportion of students repeating a grade. She started the school year teaching students how to draw different kinds of maps, such as sketch maps, area maps, and proportional maps.