ABSTRACT
This chapter continues with the elementary school curriculum but for older children. It describes a framework to guide the 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade learners on the physical literacy journey with Milestone 2, “a happy and healthy life is my purpose of physical activity.” The goal is to emphasize that health enhancement is a grand purpose of voluntary physical activity that is somewhat different from the purposes of involuntary physical activities. The children’s characteristics of growth and development are summarized at the beginning part of the chapter. A discussion of the enduring (life) dimension is followed to articulate that the physical literacy journey should accelerate during the middle childhood development stage because of the rapid increase in children’s physical and mental capacities. It argues for the curriculum to provide knowledge at this young age to reinforce the purpose-activity connection with a focus in healthful living. In the section about the Transient (immediate physical activity needs) dimension, the ideas about mating knowledge and physical activity are delineated to illustrate an approach to designing monism experiences for the learner. Acknowledging the importance of learning fundamental movement skills, the section illustrates knowledge-physical activity-integrated tasks using existing tasks in a curriculum as examples and articulates the need for using student workbooks as a tool to facilitate the embodiment experience.
