Types of Peripheral Devices – Technology Skills for Kids

There are many different peripheral devices, but they fall into three general categories: Input devices, such as a mouse and a keyboard. Output devices, such as a monitor and a printer. Storage devices, such as a hard drive or flash drive. Source: Study.com

Input device

Fun fact: You can use an input device such as a mouse or keyboard to give a device commands; to tell the device what you want it to do.

wireless two button mouse with scroll wheel

wireless mouse in use with notebook computer

Output devices

In a nutshell 🐿️, computer monitors enable you to see what you are accomplishing using the computer itself.

Notebook computers have built-in monitors (or displays).

A document was visually created using a word processing app on a computer (outputted on the computer monitor) and then sent to a printer (outputted onto paper).

storage device

Fun fact: External storage devices make it easy to copy large files (e.g. videos and multimedia presentations) between devices.

External storage devices can also be used to back up your important files — although it should be noted that external storage devices can become inoperable (i.e. turn into pumpkins 🎃) for no particular reason.

This flash drive can **only** be inserted into a USB port.

Inserting a flash drive (an external storage device) into the USB port of a notebook computer

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