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What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this safe informational site is the home of skateboard manufacturer Paul Schmitt’s nonprofit CreateAskate project, a school program designed to get kids excited about learning. The site offers interesting background info on skateboarding and details about the create-a-skateboard program. School administrators -- not kids -- may register at the site and order skateboard materials, which cost just $15 per student. Schmitt, who began making his own skateboards at the age of 14, founded CreateAskate to teach kids basic math, science, and art concepts and give them a sense of accomplishment.
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Is It Any Good?
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.
Online interaction: The site is for information and ordering purposes only.
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 5, 2015
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