ADVICE FROM PALEOECOLOGIST JILL:

“There is so much that we don’t know that we don’t know”

“All it takes is one person asking one question, and they can radically change how humans think”

“There are always parts of things that are hard and we don’t like”

“There are always unexpected difficulties and you will run into them but you need to push past them, once you push past them you get to something really exciting and that’s actually building knowledge for yourself!”

“Don’t tell the other scientists that I said that biology is really cool and probably the coolest”

Fun fact: Jill can tell you the weather at a certain point in time thousands of years ago more accurately than meteorologists can predict the weather a few days from now. 

What is science? 

Asking questions and making observations

OR 

Making observations and asking questions

Science is about asking questions like – What, Why, How? When? What if… 

What kind of science is out there? 

There are many different fields of science- all scientists may have different goals or special ways of thinking depending on their field of study.

There is Mathematics, Computing, Biology,
Chemistry, Physics, Ecology, Environmental Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and even art can be studied scientifically!

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ALLOWS US TO LEARN ABOUT OUR WORLD

What do scientists do? They…

• Ask questions and make observations/ make observations and ask questions
• Make a hypothesis
• Test their hypothesis
• Draw conclusions from the results of their tests
• Record and share their results