The Scientific Method & Science Fair Projects

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I'm learning "The Scientific Method & Science Fair Projects" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What the scientific method is".

What the lesson teaches:
- Britannica describes the scientific method as the technique used to build and test a hypothesis.
- Common steps: 1. Observe and ask a question. 2. Do background research. 3. Make a hypothesis. 4. Test it with an experiment. 5. Analyze the data. 6. Draw a conclusion. 7. Share your results.
- Real science is not always a straight line. If the data don't support your hypothesis, you make a new one and test again. That is not failure; it's how science moves forward.
- Marie Curie used careful experiments to study radioactivity. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the elements radium and polonium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.

The exercise I'm working on:
Write down five "I wonder..." questions about things you see every day (for example: "I wonder why bread goes mouldy faster in summer"). Circle the one you're most curious about.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "What the scientific method is" from the course "The Scientific Method & Science Fair Projects".

Here's what the lesson says:
The scientific method is a way of finding out what's true by testing, not guessing. It's like being a detective: you notice a clue, make a guess, test your guess, and see if the clues agree.

The activity:
Write down five "I wonder..." questions about things you see every day (for example: "I wonder why bread goes mouldy faster in summer"). Circle the one you're most curious about.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.