Classroom Resource

What Are Input and Output Devices?

Subject Area

Digital Literacy and Computer Science

Grade(s)

1, 2

Overview

This site offers informational text, video, and interactive activities to help students understand input and output devices. 

Input is data that a computer receives. Output is data that a computer sends.

Computers only work with digital information. Any input that a computer receives must be digitized.

Often data has to be converted back to an analog format when it's output, for example, the sound from a computer's speakers.

Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 1

DLCS18.1.18

Label visible components of digital devices.

Unpacked Content

UP:DLCS18.1.18

Vocabulary

  • screen
  • keyboard
  • mouse
  • port
  • speakers

Knowledge

Students know:
  • various observable parts of digital devices by name.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify observable parts of digtial devices orally or by labeling.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • various parts of digital devices have a specific name.
Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2018) Grade(s): 2

DLCS18.2.17

Explain the purposes of visible input and output components of digital device.

Unpacked Content

UP:DLCS18.2.17

Vocabulary

  • input
  • output

Knowledge

Students know:
  • different computing devices have additional pieces that serve different functions.
  • functions of various input and output components.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • identify the input or output component needed for a job they are doing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • there are additional components that may or may not be needed to perform a specific tasks such as printer to print paper or a keyboard for entering data.
Link to Resource
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zx8hpv4

CR Resource Type

Informational Material

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

BBC
Accessibility

Accessibility

Text Resources: Content is organized under headings and subheadings
License

License Type

CUSTOM

Custom License Type (URL)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms/

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