Lamb Chop Loves America Curriculum

 

WHAT’S IN OUR SHOW:

Obviously it is impossible to cover EVERY detail of the last 250 years plus of American history, so we have chosen to focus on the following areas:

1) The Birth of our Country

2) The Concept of Manifest Destiny and the 50 states that resulted from that!

3) The Wild Wild West and Gold Rush

4) Abe Lincoln and the Presidents before and after

5) WW1 and WW2 and the Great Generation

6) The Power of American Invention and the great American Inventors

7) The 60’s: a time of Great Dreams; the music, the space age and Martin Luther King

8) The Future: the kids in the Audience!

 

All material is, of course, presented in a Politically Correct
and Age Appropriate manner!

Ideas for Discussion:

 

1. The American Revolution

Who was our first President (tricky answer!)?

What was the Constitution and why did congress feel we needed one?

Why did the 13 colonies WANT to break away from British Rule?

Which European countries helped the colonists and why?

What is the Bill of Rights?

Who said 1 if by land, 2 if by see and what on earth was he talking about?

“I Love America Lyrics”

© Lyrics: Joe Giangrasso & Steve Petruzzella

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"I Love America Accompaniment Music"

by © Joe Giangrasso & Steve Petruzzella

2. Let’s Learn Our 50 States

The 50 States Song here...

“The 50 States Song Lyrics”

Tune: Turkey in the Straw

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3. The Wild Wild West, The Gold Rush, Immigration and Manifest Destiny

a). Why was the west so wild and where was everyone rushing to?

b). How did the Gold Rush help create our country and how did the railroad and the gold rush increase immigration to our country?

c). What is “Manifest Destiny” and how did that way of thinking build our country?


“The Auctioneer”

4. Abe Lincoln and the rest of our
“United States Presidents”.

How our government works: the Branches and the Two Parties

“Do you think the 4 year term is a good idea, or would one 6 year be better, and why?”

Learn about the “Presidents of the United States”.

Click on their links

18th Century Presidents

George Washington

1st President

John Adams

2nd President

19th Century Presidents

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President

James Madison

4th President

James Monore

5th President

John Q. Adams

6th President

Andrew Jackson

7th President

Martin V Buren

8th President

William H Harrison

9th President

John Tyler

10th President

James K Polk

11th President

Zachary Taylor

12th President

Millard Fillmore

13th President

Franklin Pierce

14th President

James Buchanan

15th President

Abraham Lincoln

16th President

Andrew Johnson

17th President

Ulysses S. Grant

18th President

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President

James A. Garfield

20th President

Chester A. Arthur

21st President

Grover Cleveland

22nd President

Benjamin Harrison

23rd President

Grover Cleveland

24th President

William McKinley

25th President

20th Century Presidents

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President

William H. Taft

27th President

Woodrow Wilson

28th President

Warren G. Harding

29th President

Calvin Coolidge

30th President

Herbert Hoover

31st President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President

Harry S. Truman

33rd President

Dwight Eisenhower

34th President

John F. Kennedy

35th President

Lyndon B. Johnson

36th President

Richard M. Nixon

37th President

Gerald R. Ford

38th President

James Carter

39th President

Ronald Reagan

40th President

William J. Clinton

41st President

George H. W. Bush

42nd President

21st Century Presidents

George W. Bush

43rd President

Barack Obama

44th President

Donald J Trump

45th President

Joe Biden

46th President

5. WW1 WW2 and The Great Depression and Generation

a). Who were the Allies and who were the Axies?

b). What were the political, geopolitical and financial reasons for the wars’ beginnings?

c). What caused the Great Depression?

d).What are the 4 branches of the Military, what are they known for, and what were the great battles of the two great wars?

6. The Power Of Invention

 

One of the greatest powers of America have been not military by nature but the excellence of our inventors. Some invented things we can’t do without (Edison/light bulb) others things we don’t WANT to do without (Carver/peanut butter)!

a). What would YOU invent if you could?

7. The 60’s… a time of Great Dreams!

A generation speaks out!  Women’s Rights, Civil Rights and a race to space!

a). Why do you think that this generation chose to rebel?  Were they right to stand up for what they believed in?

b). What would YOU have done?

c). The race to space; why was it important for American to be the first to land on the moon?

d). Who was Martin Luther King and what did he accomplish? 

8. What is the Future of this Country?…..

It’s YOU!

 

a). What do you want to do when you get older?

b). What are the steps you can take NOW to move in that direction?

c). What matters to YOU and how do you think you could peacefully go about manifesting that change when you become an adult?