Teen Sensor Pre-activity

​Teen Invents Sensor to Help Patients with Dementia

By Andrea Carrasco P

Multiple Select

How might an inventor solve daily problems that people with dementia face?

• Creating a network of smart home sensors and automated voice reminders to assist with daily tasks and enhance safety.
  
  

• Developing a robot programmed to act as a personal companion and perform household chores.

• Focusing exclusively on wearable technology to track vital signs and location via GPS.

• Inventing simplified products, like extra-large clocks or special cutlery, that are easier for someone with dementia to use.

Multiple Choice

What is a Sensor?

• A sensor is something that detects other things.

• Something that plays music.

• Something that takes pictures.

• Something that tracks where you go.

Multiple Choice

What do you think the word part sens means? How are sensors similar to the human senses?

• Hit

• Feel

• Trip

• Smell

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Details are additional information about a topic. For example, if you watch a video about a new invention, details will tell you who invented it, what it does, and how it works.

Why is it important to identify details if you want to understand the solution to a problem?

• Details don't exist

• Details don't help.

• Details help you understand stories.

• Details will help you understand how the solution works and evaluate whether or not the solution is effective, practical, and complete.

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Does a smoke alarm smell smoke?

• A smoke alarm sees smoke

• A smoke alarm hears smoke.

• Yes, a smoke alarm smells smoke.

• No, a smoke alarm does not smell smoke.

A smoke alarm does not smell the smoke but detects the presence of the smoke because of its chemical structure. The alarm does not have the ability to smell.