Amy Sharony, Ph.D., is the editor of home|school|life magazine and the author of The A+ Homeschool Planner. She homeschools her rising 7th grader, recently celebrated graduating her 12th grader, and teaches literature, history, and Latin classes for homeschoolers in Atlanta.

You can’t teach your child everything they’ll need to know, but you CAN teach them how to learn — and knowing how to ask meaningful questions is an essential piece of real learning. Finding out answers will only take you so far — the real learning and intellectual discovery is often in figuring out the next Big Question to ask. I’ll talk a little bit about strategies for making questions part of your homeschool, including how to incorporate asking questions into your everyday homeschool right now and how to use asking questions to develop your own curriculum or unit study topics.