The Food Detectives Fight BAC Website

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The Food Detectives Fight BAC! Website

• Educational Objectives

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Developing Educational Objectives

• Mandate from grant
• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids
  that incorporates the Fight BAC! Message
• Cook
• Clean
• Chill
• Separate

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Developing Educational Objectives

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

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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 arent looking for information
• Kids learn from parents

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Developing Educational Objectives

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

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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.

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Developing Educational Objectives

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

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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.

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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.

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Developing Educational Objectives

• Mandate from Grant
• Develop educational website or CD-ROM for kids
  that incorporates the Fight BAC! Message
• Needs 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
• Overall
• 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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Food Detectives Fight BAC! http//www.fooddetect
ives.org

• 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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Food Detectives Fight BAC! http//www.fooddetect
ives.org

• 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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Food Detectives Fight BAC! http//www.fooddetect
ives.org

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

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Developing Educational Objectives

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