Ice Melting Experiment

I found the idea for this ice experiment over at A Mommy's Adventures.

Materials
1 glass of hot tap water
1 glass of cold tap water
2 ice cubes
2 different colored plastic plates

Hypothesis: Ice will melt faster in hot water. (I asked Hudson which ice cube would melt faster and he guessed the one in the hot water).

Method:
We filled one glass with hot tap water and a second wit cold tap water.  We placed the hot water glass on an orange plate and the cold water glass on a blue plate. The we dropped in the ice cubes.

Time to observe what happens

Observation: Both the ice cubes floated.  The one in the hot water got smaller faster

Conclusion:  Hot water makes ice melt faster than cold water does.