Can heat change matter?

"If we apply heat to ice and chocolate which are currently solids, what will happen?"

This was the question that we set out to answer through our experiments on Wednesday.

We first experimented to see what would happen to a piece of ice when placed in a glass of hot water and an empty glass.

We learned that the ice cube placed in the glass of hot water melted and turned into a liquid much faster than the ice cube placed in the empty jar.

Next, I asked, "What do you think will happen to this piece of chocolate if we apply heat from a hair dryer?"

We learned that once again, heat changed our solid piece of chocolate to a melted liquid.

Lastly, we experimented with the heat from our hands to see if we could melt an ice cube!