AWARDS



State Farm Insurance GOOD NEIGHBOR AWARD for innovative teaching



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Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Science and Math

Governor's Award (Idaho) for Excellence in Teaching Science and Math

Christa McAuliffe Fellowship (to mentor teachers for enhanced instruction)

Junior High Teacher of the Year

Scholastic, Inc., developer of curriculum for Scholastic and their interactive website

NEWEST (NASA Honors Workshop at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA)

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ART AWARDS

McCall Idaho Winter Carnival People's Choice Awards

(Click here to see Marilee Donivan's paintings)




Award-winning Instruction for Watercolor Painting
copyright  2005 "You Can Do It! ART" All rights reserved
"When you think about it, it's not too surprising that artists as diverse as     
Leonardo da Vinci, John James Audubon, and Beatrice Potter delved into both
science and art! Both science and art inspire creative thinking, close observation, and
interaction with real materials to understand and explore the world we live in. Both
science and art stimulate the imagination and cause us to wonder and contemplate!"

"Tapping both the right side of the brain and the left side of the brain, science and art
are naturally integrated through diagrams, chemistry, perspective, proportions,
photographs, drawings of observations, notations of line, shape, color, and texture.
They are dynamic partners! How did that sunset get so red? What makes the leaves
change color in autumn? Look at those features on that leopard! What creates the
Northern Lights, and why at only certain times of the year? How many colors can a
chameleon change?   ...And so on..."

"You Can Do It! ART" DVD video watercolor lessons enhance learning in all
subjects by drawing on both sides of the brain for inquisitiveness, observation and
creative thinking. Excellent teachers encourage excellence in their students through
innovation and relaxing, fun ways to help students learn new things. Whether it's
Newton's Laws of Motions on Ice or new ways of experimenting with watercolor
painting, lines, color, and textures, explorations are full of curiosity, insight and fun!"
                                                             
                                                                                       Marilee
"I see things
differently
now. I don't
just see roses
in a garden, I
see flowers
dancing!"

Maddie, age 12
"You Can Do It! ART"--Watercolor