Resources

A round up of teaching resources from around the world focused on donation and transplantations with cross-curricular links to science, health, language arts, ethics, civics and social responsibility.

Life is a Gift is a Grade 11 biology resource for organ donation and transplantation developed by the Transplant Manitoba - Gift of Life Program and Manitoba Education.

One Life...Many Gifts is a curriculum resource to educate senior secondary school students about the vital importance of organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Though developed in Ontario, these materials may be suitable for use in other regions.

An Orgamites poster showing where each of our organs are located in the body.

Connecting DOTS | Donation & Organ Transplantation for Schools is an online platform dedicated to educating schoolchildren on donation and organ transplantation. It provides information for teachers, students and their families and is based on a program first developed in the Netherlands.

An animated video developed by the Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS) in partnership with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) and the Canadian Medical Association (CMA to help explain the three pathways that lead to death.

In addition to the curriculum booklets, One Life...Many Gifts offers an accompanying video that shows the emotional journeys of several of the individuals and families who are profiled within.

Find out which are the organs and tissues that are most often donated to patients in need of transplant.

Learn about organ transplantation - what it is, how it can save lives, how your immune system responds, and how the matching process works.