Input devices such as keyboards and mice are used to input information into a computer, while output devices like monitors and printers are used to output information from a computer. Input devices allow users to enter data, text, and instructions into a computer, and output devices display or print the processed information from the computer.

1. Input and Output Devices
Second Grade

2. What is an input device?
• Input devices are used to put information
INTO a computer
• Can you think of tools we might use in the
computer lab that puts information into a
computer?

3. What is an output device?
• Output devices are used to get information
OUT of a computer.
• Can you think of any tools we might use in
the computer lab that get information out
of the computer?