Here are some ideas for lesson activities focusing on organ and tissue donation and transplantation:

The Gift of a Lifetime:

The Gift of a Lifetime is an important educational resource that takes students and teachers on a journey behind the scenes of the organ donor program and a major transplant center to experience the dramatic stories of transplant patients, donors and their families.

For high school teachers:
Decision Donation curriculum

Decision: Donation—A school program That Gives the Gift of Life was created in response to the former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson's, vision of a model instructional package for high schools that would educate the nation's youth about the importance of organ and tissue donation and the need to make an informed decision about whether to be a donor and share their donation wishes with their families.

This multifaceted set of materials—print, video, CD-ROM, and web-based—can be used by both public and private educators to integrate the topic of organ and tissue donation into existing curriculum and training programs.

For more information about these materials and the national initiative to increase organ, tissue, and stem cell donation, contact the Division of Transplantation at 301-443-7577.