The Food Detectives Fight BAC!® Website

Educational Objectives

Developing Educational Objectives

• Mandate from grant:– Develop educational website or CD-ROM for

kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! Message• Cook

• Clean

• Chill

• Separate

Developing Educational Objectives

Mandate from Grant:• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! Message

Needs Assessment

• When do kids establish food cooking behaviors?• Where do they learn behavior?• What part of the Fight BAC! message is

meaningful to them?• Challenges

– Food safety not mandated curriculum

– Kids aren’t looking for information

– Kids learn from parents

Developing Educational Objectives

Mandate from Grant:• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Assessment:• Spare-time education for 8-12 year olds, with most of Fight BAC! Message

Breakdown of Educational Objectives: Needs Table

• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.

• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices

• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members, particularly when seeing a violation.

• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times.

• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.

• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe foods should be kept separate from raw foods and juices.

Developing Educational Objectives

Mandate from Grant:• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Assessment:• Spare-time education for 8-12 year olds, with most of Fight BAC! Message

Needs Table:

• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.

• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices

• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members, particularly when seeing a violation.

• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times.

• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.

• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe foods should be kept separate from raw foods and juices

Breakdown of Educational Objectives: Needs Table

• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.

• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices

• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members, particularly when seeing a violation.

• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times.

• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.

• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe foods should be kept separate from raw foods and juices.

• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.

• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices

• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members, particularly when seeing a violation.

• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times, and know when washing is needed.

• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.

• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe foods should be kept separate from raw foods and juices.

Breakdown of Educational Objectives: Overall & Specific

Overall:• Kids will recognize symptoms

and forms of food borne illness• Kids will recognize food borne

illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices

• Thermometers are standard kitchen equipment and should be in every kitchen.

• Raw meat and juices should be kept separate from cooked meat and juices

Specific – Kids will:• Share food safety information

with friends and family members

• Know how long to wash hands for

• Know when handwashing is needed.

• Understand the 2 hour rule• Know how bacteria can be

killed or growth can be slowed.

Developing Educational Objectives

Mandate from Grant:• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Assessment:• Spare-time education for 8-12 year olds, with most of Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Table:• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members,

particularly when seeing a violation.• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times.• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe

foods should be kept separate from raw foods and juicesOverall:• Kids will recognize symptoms, illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices, shape attitudes

about thermometers and separate rule.Specific – Kids will:• Share food safety information with friends and family members• Know how long to wash hands for• Know when handwashing is needed.• Understand the 2 hour rule• Know how bacteria can be killed or growth can be slowed.

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• Goals– Reach game-playing kids in spare time– Entertaining site that sustains interest– Educational messages (Modified Fight BAC!)

• Handwashing: when and how

• Leftovers: 2 hour rule

• Killing or slowing bacteria growth

• “Adult Evangelization”

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• Results (70 - 11 & 12 year olds)– Significant pre- to post-test knowledge gain in

• How long to wash hands

• How long to leave leftovers out

• How to kill bacteria (wash and cook)

• Chilling food slows growth

• Washing hands after going to the bathroom

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• Qualitative Observations– Users would recommend site– Sustained play throughout use– Voluntary return to site– Knowledge gain in something

Developing Educational Objectives

Mandate from Grant:• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids that incorporates the Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Assessment:• Spare-time education for 8-12 year olds, with most of Fight BAC! MessageNeeds Table:• Kids will recognize symptoms and forms of food borne illness as identified by the national Fight BAC Campaign.• Kids will recognize food borne illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices• Through their actions, kids will demonstrate a need to share food safety information with friends and family members,

particularly when seeing a violation.• Kids will wash their hands for a full 20 seconds voluntarily at needed times.• Kids will know what food needs to be refrigerated and understand the importance of doing so within 2 hours.• Raw meat and juices should not be consumed. Kids will understand why raw meat is dangerous, and identify how safe foods

should be kept separate from raw foods and juicesOverall:• Kids will recognize symptoms, illness as a problem directly related to their own personal practices, shape attitudes about

thermometers and separate rule.Specific – Kids will:• Share food safety information with friends and family members• Know how long to wash hands for• Know when handwashing is needed.• Understand the 2 hour rule• Know how bacteria can be killed or growth can be slowed.Future:• Kids will teach themselves the nature of bacteria: can be ‘seen’, how we know it is there.• Affect behavior rather than knowledge.

Issues Raised:

• Balance of use with knowledge gain • Educational game v. entertaining

educational module• Information nuggets v. users constructing

their own knowledge• Prioritizing of educational objectives, and

commitment level• What should be learned v. what can be

taught