Common Sense Media Review
Nonprofit teaches kids life skills by making skateboards.
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The brainchild of Paul Schmitt, a professional skateboard manufacturer turned educator and philanthropist, the CREATEASKATE program teaches kids the math and science behind a popular everyday pop-culture icon: the skateboard. CreateAskate looks like a woodworking site with its woodgrain-textured graphics. But it does a pretty good job of explaining how a two-week make-a-skateboard project can help kids become better students and set life goals. The site's core lesson: in a material world that celebrates instant gratification, it can be worth the time and effort to make, rather than buy, something you want.
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Talk to Your Kids About ...
Discuss how CreateAskate is open to any boy or girl enrolled in a shop or art class at their junior high or high school. Anyone can take the class and learn valuable concepts that will come in handy later in life.
Discuss other ways for kids to exercise their creativity. Read Creating With Digital Media.
Website Details
- Genre : Educational
- Pricing structure : Free
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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