A branching database is a collection of data organised in a tree structure using yes/no or true/false questions.  We have thought about how to ask questions, how to group objects by their attributes and how to structure a branching database.

This week children have created their own branching databases independently.  Pupils selected their own animals and wrote their own questions and devised up their data accordingly.

Below is a video of how answering yes or no to the questions gives you results.  In this branching database, the topic was clothing.