I think almost any subject CAN be interesting to kids if the teacher knows how to hold the kid's attention.
I had a GREAT geology professor my first year of college who really made the subject live in every lecture.
Conversely, I had a Geography professor who put me to sleep every class with his droning, uninspired lectures, then he'd hit us with exams that contained nothing but a lot of disconnected history trivia we were supposed to know.