Smart Kids Fight BAC!®

This material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, under special project number 99-41560-0815.

Smart Kids Fight BAC!®
Food Safety Curriculum for K-3

Smart Kids Fight BAC! ®
The Animated Video

(Graphics - four frames from the video)

Activity Books

(Slide shows covers of the kindergarten-grade 1 and grades 2-3 activity books.)

(Next slide shows a sample activity page that uses mathematical computations to solve a "secret code" puzzle.)

(Next slide shows examples of mazes the children navigate to reach the safety of the cold refrigerator.)

(Activity book covers shown again.)

(Cover of "He's BAC! A Children's Guide to Keeping Food Safe.")

(The next four slides show pages for each of the 4 concepts: clean, separate, cook, chill.)

Methods

Impact

Overall, children exposed to curriculum showed significantly greater improvement in post-test scores compared to pre-test scores than did control groups (p<0.005)

Kindergarten

  • Significant increases in knowledge of separate and chill concepts
  • Highly significant increase in knowledge of the cook concept
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    Third Grade

  • Ceiling effect - already knew correct handwashing procedure and to chill food to save for later
  • Significant increase in knowledge of separate concept
  • Highly significant increase in knowledge of the cook concept
    •

    First Grade and Second Grade

  • Significant increases in knowledge of all four concepts
  • Highly significant increases in knowledge of the separate and cook concepts
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    (Closing slides - BAC, Florida scene)