SCHOOL EDUCATOR RESOURCE PACK
Reception to Year 2
Organ and tissue donation saves lives, but it’s also a highly personal and sensitive topic, and one
that raises many questions, especially for the young.
It’s important for our children to start to think about their organs, what they are for and what
happens if they become ill, and discuss their questions with their teachers, parents and
caregivers in a supportive and engaging environment.
This Ruth Barker Project Educator Resource Pack
provides lesson outlines and resource sheets to accompany the
Ed the Ted picture book – a carefully considered children’s book
that can accompany any education program for young children
about organ donation and transplants.
A read-aloud version of the book can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi6iXQmxuTM
This book is offered to South Australian Schools, Teachers and Educators at the special
wholesale price of $12.50… and the first 100 books ordered will be completely FREE!
To purchase, please click here, or visit www.toddlereducationservices.com.au/education-packs.
Australian Curriculum Links – R-2
These resources are aligned to learning descriptions in the Australian Curriculum. Discussing
issues around organ donation and transplant, using this pack, gives Educators and Teachers the
opportunity to explore essential components of the Health & Physical Activity and Science
learning areas, as well as the fundamental General Capabilities.
Please see Resource Sheet 11 in this pack for further information.
Health and Physical Activity
Foundation Year
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
Identify and describe emotional responses people may experience in different situations (ACPPS005)
Contributing to healthy and active communities
Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS006)
Years 1 and 2
Being healthy, safe and active
Recognise situations and opportunities to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS006)
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
Identify and practise emotional responses that account for own and others feelings (ACPPS020)
Science
Science Understanding
Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017)
Science as Human Endeavour
People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things
(ACSHE022)
Science Inquiry Skills
Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas (ACSIS233)
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Lesson Suggestions: Reception to Year 2
1.
Knowing Body Parts
2. Introduce a Teddy Bear or Doll to the group
3. Ask the students to name the Teddy Bear’s body parts that they know.
4. Using Resource Sheet 1 – following the discussion, student draw any body parts
they know of the Teddy Bear
5. Discuss Teddy’s organs. Most particularly the heart, lungs, pancreas, kidney and
liver.
6. Using the pictures below, ask them to identify the organs and suggest where they
are on Teddy’s body. (http://www.freedigitalphotos.net )
7. Using Resource Sheet 2, ask students to label each organ.
8. Resource Sheet 3 & 4 – students cut out and paste the organs in the appropriate
place onto the cut out of the Teddy Bear. (It’s important to note that the organs
have been sized to represent their comparative sizes.)
2.
When Body Parts (Organs) Get Sick
1. Discuss the function of each organ (above).
2. Invite students to suggest what can happen when each organ is ‘sick.’
3. Discuss with students about scientists and specialists that have worked out how
to transplant organs from one person to another through organ donation and
transplantation.
3.
When Organs Get Sick
1. Read the book ‘Ed the Ted’ or share the online ‘read aloud’ version.
2. Ask the students what they are thinking about Ed/Ed’s family/the other Ted/the
other Ted’s family.
3. Show the students a picture of Ed the Ted
with the photo of his donor mate. Discuss and
record thoughts on feelings they may have
about the story. Use Resource Sheet 6 to
record thoughts and feelings.
4. Gather some material from Donate Life (donatelife.org) to send home to families.
You could also photocopy the back of the Ed The Ted book.
5. Invite students to complete Resource Sheet 7 at home with their families.
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Resource Sheet 1
TEDDY BEAR
Label Ed the Ted’s body parts
Label Teddy’s body parts
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Resource Sheet 2
Label each body part below using a name
from the list.
pancreas
heart
lungs
kidney
liver
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Resource Sheet 3 - 4
Resource Sheet 3 - 4
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Resource Sheet 3 - 4
Cut out each body part below and paste it
onto the big Teddy in the right place.
Draw any other body parts you know
N.B. Organs are scaled to represent their comparative sizes
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Resource Sheet 6
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Resource Sheet 7
Share the story of Ed the Ted and his donor
mate with your family.
Record some of the thoughts and feelings
you shared at home.
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Resource Sheet 11
Using this Educator Resource Pack, curriculum expectations can be addressed. Discussing issues of organ donation
and transplant using these resource materials gives educators the opportunity to explore essential components of
the Health & Physical Activity and Science learning areas as well as the fundamental General Capabilities.
ACARA
Science
Foundation-2
Science Understanding - Biological sciences
3-5
6-9
Concerned with understanding living things. Concepts developed include: living things are interdependent and
interact with each other and their environment. Through this sub-strand, students investigate living things, including
their interdependence (organ donation) and interactions. They explore their life cycles, body systems, structural
adaptations and behaviours.
Science as Human Endeavour - Use and influence of science
Explores how science knowledge and applications affect peoples’ lives, including their work, and how science is
influenced by society and can be used to inform decisions and actions. (organ transplant and donation).
Science Inquiry Skills - Questioning and predicting
General
Capabilities
Science inquiry involves identifying and posing questions; planning, conducting and reflecting on investigations;
processing, analysing and interpreting evidence; and communicating findings. This strand is concerned with
evaluating claims, investigating ideas, solving problems, drawing valid conclusions and developing evidence-based
arguments. (e.g. organ donation).
Personal and social capability
Students develop personal and social capability as they learn to understand themselves and others.
The personal and social capability involves students in a range of practices including recognising and regulating
emotions, developing empathy for and understanding of others, making responsible decisions and handling
challenging situations constructively.
Language is central to personal and social identity. Using English to develop communication skills and self-expression
assists students’ personal and social development as they become effective communicators able to articulate their
own opinions and beliefs.
Students develop personal and social capability as they engage in science inquiry, learn how scientific knowledge
informs and is applied in their daily lives, and explore how scientific debate provides a means of contributing to their
communities.
The Science learning area enhances personal and social capability by expanding students’ capacity to question, solve
problems, explore and display curiosity. Students use their scientific knowledge to make informed choices about
issues that impact their lives such as health and nutrition and environmental change, and consider the application of
science to meet a range of personal and social needs.
Ethical understanding
Students develop ethical understanding as they identify and investigate the nature of ethical concepts, values,
character traits and principles, and understand how reasoning can assist ethical judgment. Ethical understanding
involves students in building a strong personal and socially oriented ethical outlook that helps them to manage
context, conflict and uncertainty, and to develop an awareness of the influence that their values and behaviour have
on others.
Students develop ethical understanding as they study the issues and dilemmas present in a range of texts and explore
how ethical principles affect the behaviour and judgment of characters and those involved in issues and events.
Students apply the skills of reasoning, empathy and imagination, consider and make judgments about actions and
motives, and speculate on how life experiences affect and influence people’s decision making and whether various
positions held are reasonable.
Students develop the capacity to form and make ethical judgments in relation to experimental science, codes of
practice, and the use of scientific information and science applications. They explore what integrity means in science,
and explore and apply ethical guidelines in their investigations. They consider the implications of their investigations
on others, the environment and living organisms. They use scientific information to evaluate claims and to inform
ethical decisions about a range of social, environmental and personal issues.
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