Good Morning Year 2!
Click here for a printable version of this blog post: Thursday Computing printable
Today we are going to learn how to make a branch that helps us to find out about an animal. We’ll do this by sorting the animals into different groups.
Before we make our own, I’d like you to have a look at this final version about minibeasts. Click on play at the bottom and then you can try. Choose a minibeast from the left hand side and then answer questions about it on the branching diagram, click on the thumbs up or down to answer. Eventually, it should tell you the minibeast that you were thinking of!
The secret to making these is thinking of YES or NO questions, these are questions that you can only answer yes or no to.
*If you want to play a game with your family, play 20 questions! Someone thinks of something, anything! And the rest of the family can ask 20 yes/no questions to try and work out what it is. You’ll soon work out which questions are helpful and which are not..!
Let’s make our own!
- Go to J2e.com, log in using your USO details, and then click on J2data
- Once you’re in there, click on Branch
- Choose a blank template
- Choose your topic from the options on the left hand side. I’m going to choose Animals.
- Choose between 3 and 6 examples from your category, and place them in the main box on the screen by clicking on them.
- Click sort (bottom right)
- You now have to come up with a yes/no question and then sort all your animals into yes or no (for example, can it fly?)
- When you have sorted them all, click ok.
- It will then keep asking you to come up with yes/no questions and sorting the animals until they have all the questions they need.
- Once you’ve done enough questions, it’ll show you your finished branch! Make sure you click the save button!
- Get your family to test it out for you!
*Once you have done one, you can do another and play around with the backgrounds and number of things you have in your graph.
Once you have clicked on save, please let me know in the comments, because I can then go and find it in J2e and put a photo of it on our blog for everyone to see! You can also let us know which categories you have chosen and how you found it, as well as asking any questions. Have fun!
If you want any extra help, then have a look here for a video that goes through the steps of how to make your own.
We did two branches, saved on J2e. One used six animals; the other used thirteen minibeasts. We tried them out and they seemed to work quite well.
13! Wow, you must have had to come up with a lot of questions! I’ll go and find it and then put it on the blog page 🙂 Well done!
Hi miss I have made my branch. My mum uploaded it.
Well done Madeleine! Thanks for letting me know 🙂
I had fun doing the game with the minibeasts. All saved Miss.
Well done Finley! I’m glad you had fun 🙂
Dear Miss Carruthers,
I have saved my branch
Thanks Sophie! Well done 🙂
I made a branch about animals and a branch about transport. I love both those things. They are saved.
Thanks Jack! I’m glad you were able to do it about things that you love so much 🙂
Miss I did my work
Well done Layla 🙂 Thanks for letting me know!
I have done my computing work. It was fun.
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Hello Miss
I have done my work and it was so easy.
I’m glad, which topic did you choose?
dear miss Carruthers, we have saved it
Thank you Gabi 🙂
I have finished and I love it
I’m pleased to hear that Joshua 🙂
Dear Miss Carruthers,
I did two branches (dinosaurs and planets). I pressed the save button on the top, but can’t find it anymore when I go in the system. Is it there?
Greetings,
Sophia
Yes I have got it! Thank you for checking – well done for completing it 🙂
Hello Miss
I have finished my work and the topic was about minibeast .
Wonderful, thanks Marisa.
I’ve finished my animal tree.
Brilliant, thanks Catherine.
I have done two branches and saved them. I’m going to do more because I love making them.
I’m glad you enjoyed this task so much!! Well done!
Dear Miss Carruthers , I saved my branch . It was fun today ??
Thanks Sophia, I’m glad you had fun!