Today we had to try and find out the answer to a very tricky question: does a snowman melt when we put a jacket on it? We all thought that the snowman would definitely melt because the jacket will warm it up. We worked in teams to find out the answer.  We were each given a snowman (a bottle filled with ice) and some felt.  We worked hard to create jackets for our ‘snowmen’ and tried hard to cover the entire bottle with our jacket.  We also had 1 snowman without a jacket so that we could compare how much each snowman melted.  After a little while we started to notice that the snowmen with jackets on were not melting.  We collected water from the snowmen with jackets on and compared that to the water we collected from the ‘naked’ snowmen.  We were amazed to find out that the snowmen with the jacket on gave us less water, meaning that they had melted less.  We were all schocked to find this out and tried to suggest some ideas why this might have happened.  We found out that the jacket stops cold air from escaping and that it keeps hot air from going near the ice.  We learned that the jacket was an insulator. Please ask your child more about this.