As Conrad Miziumski says, "Science is something you DO, not something you remember." At a minimum, doing science requires a few things:
1) Two observations.
For example: Sunlight is warm, and days are short in winter.
2) A story that describes the relation between the two observations.
A story for the example could be, "Sunlight is responsible for warming the earth."
3) A friend to ask, "Did you see that?" - just in case you imagined the whole thing.
4) A friend to ask about the story. A friend might say, "If the shortest day is December; why do the coldest days come in January and February?"
3 and 4 amount to publishing.
Repeat. Use the discussion as motivation to gather new data, or invent a more nuanced story, or both.
Trust that with small steps, mistakes, revisions, new ideas, and new observations, the net result is an improved understanding of the world, shared by you and your friend.