The New Hartford School District faculty has received training in Understanding by Design (UbD), and have written their science units accordingly.
Please click on the following link to see a template used for Understanding by Design work. The first two pages describe the various components of a UbD unit, and pages 3 and 4 show a sample of a completed grade three language arts unit completed on the same template. http://www.grantwiggins.org/documents/UbDQuikvue1005.pdf