Input and Output Devices

👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective

Students will distinguish input devices and output devices and give examples of each.

Teaching Notes

• Use a two-column chart: Input vs Output.
• Demonstrate with a simple action: speak (mic input) → hear sound (speaker output).
• Clarify that some devices can be both (touchscreen can show and receive taps).
• Keep examples concrete and classroom-friendly.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Input devices help you tell the computer what you want. Output devices help the computer show or play the results. Some devices can do both.

Computer Vocabulary and Definition

• — A tool that sends information to the computer.
• — A tool that shows or plays information from the computer.
• — An input device that records sound.
• — An output device that plays sound.
• — An output device that makes a paper copy.

Computer QA

1. Is a keyboard an input or output device?

2. Is a monitor an input or output device?

3. Is a mouse an input or output device?

4. Is a speaker an input or output device?

5. Is a microphone an input or output device?

6. What does an input device do?

7. What does an output device do?

8. Name one input device.

9. Name one output device.

10. True or False: A printer is an input device.

11. True or False: Speakers play sound from the computer.

12. What device can record your voice?

13. What device can print your work on paper?

14. What device can show a picture?

15. What device can help you click?

16. Can a touchscreen be both input and output?

17. When you tap a touchscreen, is that input?

18. When a touchscreen shows a video, is that output?

19. Why do we need output devices?

20. Why do we need input devices?

Computer Prtactices

• Sort cards into Input or Output: keyboard, printer, mouse, monitor, speaker, microphone.
• Draw one input device and one output device. Write one sentence for each.
• Classroom hunt: Find 2 input devices and 2 output devices in your room.
• Touchscreen talk: Explain how a tablet screen can be input and output.

Reflection

• Name one input device you used today.
• Name one output device you used today.