The Orgamites - It's What's Inside That Counts
The Orgamites - It's What's Inside That Counts
The Orgamites - It's what's inside that counts!
Introducing the Orgamites, a lovable life-saving team helping kids (and their parents) to connect with and appreciate the roles of their organs, while learning what organ donation is all about. The Orgamites.ca educational resources live here in the Organs & Tissues for Life Education Portal. To access all of the Orgamites videos, lesson plans and more, use the buttons on the left side of this page and scroll down to read more...
The Orgamites are a team of nine life-saving organs (led by Captain Marrow) found in every one of us. They’re known as the "mighty organs" because they represent the most-donated parts of the body. The Orgamites also inspire children to live healthier, show more compassion for others, and be more environmentally aware.
Every tool created has been designed in such a way as to empower teachers, parents and students with informative and exciting resources to learn, teach and talk about this important topic. Join in the conversation @OrgamitesinCanada @MightyOrgamites #MightyOrgamites #OrgansTissuesForLife
The Orgamites — Educational Toolkits
Whether you’re a school principal, educator or home-schooling parent — we’ve endeavoured to make this often-avoided topic as fun, life-giving and informative as possible... all so that kids and their families are empowered to have more conversations, make more informed choices, and express these choices to their loved ones and wider circle when they’re ready to.
Click the buttons below to go directly to each Teacher Toolkit resources page:
Meet Your Mighty Organs (Ages 6-11) Let’s Get Mighty Healthy (Ages 6-11) The Mighty Kind Movement (Ages 8-14)
These fun and free educational toolkits seek to empower children, and the grown-ups in their lives, with all they need to know to inspire more life-saving conversations. Every one of these toolkits has been specially designed for kids 6 to 11 years of age, and includes:
- Entertaining and educational videos
- Ready-to-go lesson plans and presentations
- Printable worksheets, class activities and take-home resources
- Posters and fun activities for the whole family
- Guides for teachers and parents help tackle courageous conversations about life and death and powerful impact of sharing and caring.
Teacher Toolkit 1: Meet Your Mighty Organs
With age-appropriate facts, kids get to discover the most-needed and donated organs in our bodies.
Toolkit 1 includes:
- A ready-to-go lesson plan and presentation (estimated lesson time: 1 hour).
- Animated videos kids will love to watch, as well as informative, introductory videos
- Printable worksheets, class activities and take-home resources.
Details:
The lesson plan is centred around an engaging and easy-to-follow presentation, during which, children will learn:
- The need-to-know facts about their organs in general
- What vital organs are (and why they’re so vital)
- What the ‘mighty’ organs are (the most commonly transplanted organs)
- What organ transplantation and donation is all about
The end goal:
- To encourage more families to have all-important conversations about organ donation. How? By providing children with valuable information that sparks a new-found appreciation for their health and ‘mighty’ organs, sheds light on organ transplantation and donation, and empowers families to express their choices regarding donation to one another.
Click here to access Teacher Toolkit #1
Teacher Toolkit 2: Let’s Get Mighty Healthy
This toolkit seeks to empower kids to take care of their Mighty Organs and provides fun tips, challenges and rewards for improving their health too.
This Educational Toolkit has been created to encourage kids to look after their health by bringing the most important pillars of health to life. Along the way, kids will learn how the health of their organs affects their overall health, and they’ll also be made aware of the concepts of organ transplantation and donation.
Details:
This toolkit is centred around The Orgamites’ 5 Tips To Staying Mighty Healthy, which are:
- GET MOVING
- TAKE A BREAK FROM SCREENS
- EAT GOOD FOOD
- DRINK MORE WATER
- RECHARGE ON SLEEP
Toolkit 2 includes:
- Ready-to-go lesson plans and presentation
- Animated video kids will love to watch
- A downloadable/printable ‘Let’s Get Mighty Healthy’ booklet.
The end goal:
- To inspire and equip children and their families to form healthier habits that last a lifetime.
- To increase awareness about our organs, and the roles they play in keeping us healthy.
- To encourage children and parents to have some all-important conversations about organ donation with informative, conversation-starting tools and
Click here to access Teacher Toolkit #2
Teacher Toolkit 3: ‘The Mighty Kind Movement
This toolkit aims to inspire kids to not only take care of their own health, but to look out for others and the planet.
It has been created to help create and sustain a growing movement of people from around the world committed to taking better care of each other and the planet. Unlike previous toolkits, the content of this toolkit is best suited to children 8-14 years of age.
Toolkit 3 includes:
- Four ready-to-go lesson plans and presentations (estimated lesson time: 1 hour each).
- Animated videos kids will love to watch
- Printable worksheets, class activities and take-home resources
Details:
The lesson plan is centred around an engaging and easy-to-follow presentation, during which, children will learn:
- How and why to take better care of our planet
- How and why to reduce their waste.
- How and why to recycle better (as well as how to read labels)
- How and why to upcycle
- How to take better care of others
- The benefits of lifecycling and organ donation
- Why kindness and compassion really matter
The end goal:
- To encourage more families to have all-important conversations about organ donation. How? By providing children with valuable information that sparks a new-found appreciation for their planet, for others, and for the finite resources all around them – including their own bodies and organs.
Click here to access Teacher Toolkit #3
The Orgamites is a global programme for 6- to 11-year-olds. Orgamites uses educational and creative tools, toys and technology to empower grown-ups with everything they might need to teach children about their mighty organs (the most transplanted and donated organs), as well as how to live mighty healthy and be mighty kind. The Orgamites Programme is presented by All Good Co. which is a Community Interest Company. Current partners include: Live Life Give Life, Team Margot, Giving to Help Others, Onassis Foundation and Canadian Blood Services. Supported by NHS Blood and Transplant, Organ Donation Scotland and the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Created by Roydon Turner. ©Copyright, Creative and Production by *Awesonova. All rights reserved. Discover more at Orgamites.ca or Orgamites.com