• To describe why organs are needed from others
  

• To explain how matching blood groups is vital and link this to the success or rejection of an organ.  

• In groups with peers on your table you are to design a campaign to encourage people to sign up to the organ transplant list. This can be in any format (computer, poster, leaflet, badges or even a play). Include the importance of blood matching and explain why if you are group O this is especially important to be a blood donor.

• Discuss with a partner why people carry donor cards. Do they know anyone that carries one or who has needed a transplant? Would you carry one yourself?
• Your teacher will ask you now to watch a video on organ transplants. Listen carefully as you may be asked questions on it later.
• Kidney transplants are far cheaper than kidney dialysis and give the patient more independence. However, the demand is high and depends on being able to obtain fresh healthy kidneys in which the tissue is alive. Under your title “organ transplantation” suggests the ethical and moral issues raised by kidney dialysis and kidney transplantation. Has the video changed YOUR mind about donating?
• Look on the BBC News website and read the story of the Dutch game show from the date: Tuesday, 29 May 2007. Why was this game show in the news?

With any operation it is essential the surgeon knows your blood group.

• Click on this link to find out the 4 main blood groups http://www.nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/ 
• Create a table of your own to explain which blood groups can donate and receive from other blood groups. This is called a compatibility table. Use this link below for help but resist the urge to cut and paste!
• Kill the patient? Have a go at the blood donation game when you are done – good fun.
  Find out what these key words mean: universal receiver, universal donor.

• Ext: Research the Pioneering work by Christiaan Barnard on organs (heart transplantation)

• Having a good day? Why not find out how organ rejection can be prevented, what do doctors do to help patient and organ be compatible?