The lesson design and materials used with your lesson may be a combination of your original work, ideas adapted from various sources, ideas from professional colleagues, and materials previously created or published by others.
As a professional in the field of education, you should appropriately document your sources to give proper attribution to original authors/creators. It is expected that you apply full and correct APA formatting style for citations and references; this is the standard in the field of education. APA formatting is used within the body of this document and on the reference pages. Use the following links as references for correctly citing your resources using APA formatting and examples of acknowledgments.
Resources for APA Style
The American Psychological Association APA Style Guide: https://apastyle.apa.org/
Purdue Online Writing Lab APA Style Introduction: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
Examples of Acknowledgements
This lesson is original.
This lesson is adapted from Mr. XXXX’s lesson on weather, XXXX Middle school, XXXX, MN
This lesson is adapted from [Insert Curriculum citation here]
This lesson is adapted from XXXX website.
This lesson combines original ideas with [summarize where other ideas were found, including any worksheets or other materials used in lesson].