Branching basically means checking conditions which determine the choice being made. So, in other words, making a decision depending on what is happening or what has happened. When explaining the coding concept branching to kids, you can use an example of their school day using different steps.
Branching is a basic concept in computer science. It means an instruction that tells a computer to begin executing a different part of a program rather than executing statements one-by-one. Branching is implemented as a series of control flow statements in high-level programming languages