This article on Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, credits the inventor for helping create the "interactive, use-friendly" computer interfaces that we have today.

Use this interactive tutorial to learn how to use a computer mouse.

Read this four-stanza poem about a mouse that helps you work your computer.

Students play the main computer components like a CPU, mouse, or IO controller to simulate calculator application by moving a mouse, synchronizing it with the mouse pointer on the screen and sending request to the processor.

An informative article that presents an interview with Douglas Engelbart. Includes information on inventing the mouse, augmenting human intellect, and a photograph of the "first" mouse.

Kids will enjoy practice manipulating the computer mouse while building a cool car.

Cleaning your computer and your computer components and peripherals helps keep the components and computer in good working condition and helps keep the computers from spreading germs. General cleaning tips, cleaning tools and specific...

This site provides a general overview of trackballs in comparison to the traditional computer mouse.

Students design, build and evaluate a spring-powered mouse trap racer. For evaluation, teams equip their racers with an intelligent brick from a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Base Set and a HiTechnic acceleration sensor. They use...

Learners investigate how a mouse works by dissembling and evaluating its design. They are also challenged to improve the design by eliminating or changing components of the mouse they dissembled.

How does a computer work? The critical components of a computer are the peripherals (including the mouse), the input/output subsystem (which controls what and how much information comes in and out), and the central processing unit (the...

Using the computer mouse, children carefully move a car through a map of a town while trying to avoid going off of the path. They pass different landmarks and are introduced to them one at a time. The activity provides good hand-eye...

This resource provides information about using input devices with computers.

An interactive game dodging asteroids and collecting objects in space. Students will practice hand-eye coordinated mouse skills while flying through space.

Make a Gingerbread House is a holiday computer activity for early elementary age children. Kids learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students will also exercise visual spatial skills...

Kids click and drag the different toppings to make a pizza! Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Fun for children of all ages.

Click and drag the different shapes to make a pumpkin. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students may also create faces depicting different emotions. Have fun with this...

Make a Cake is a fun computer activity for kids to learn mouse manipulation skills, letters and numbers one to ten! First, children select a cake to decorate. Next, they add different color frosting, designs, letters and numbers!...

Information about computer hardware input devices, types, and their uses.

Using your computer mouse you can simulate transforming, collisional, divergent and convergent plate boundaries. Descriptions of each plate boundary are also available.

This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.

A complete lesson on owl pellets. Students can read information, watch a tutorial, and use their computer mouse to complete a dissection simulation right there on the screen.

A listing of various tips that can be used with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Find out ways to work better and more efficiently with this web browser.

This is an article on Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse.