Walk on Your Wild Side Day: 12: Before the twelfth of April, have students work in small groups to come up with ideas for a new game or modifications to an old favorite that lead to the creation of a "wild" game for Wild Side Day. Depending on grade level, have students teach their classmates the game or write a lesson plan that would allow you to teach their lesson.

Taxes Due: 15: Bring out the social conscience of your students by having them finish the following sentence. "If I were the treasurer of the United States, I would take all the money raised with taxes and spend it on …" (Limit their responses to funding programs, organizations, interventions, or environments that would make their own or the collective community's health and wellness better.)

Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day: 24: If you have children, take them to work to let them see what a day in the life of a physical activity provider is like. If they're able and want to, have them talk to your students about what you're like when not in school. Or videotape yourself teaching and bring it home to share with your family - you'll be surprised by their reaction. Or invite students' parents or guardians, who work in the allied health field, to school to make a presentation about their career.

International Walk Day: 30: Assign a country/international city to groups of students or an entire class to research - through the Internet they can find out about the place's weather; cultural, recreational, and sport events; diet and health statistics. Compute the distance (http://www.indo.com/distance/ ) from your school to the assigned place and allow the students to "walk" there during physical education class. For example, from San Diego (where I am right now) to London, UK is 5,489 miles. A group of 7 assigned London would get credit for 100 miles for every standard (one lap = 440 yards) lap they walked. If each member walked nearly 8 laps or almost 2 ml., they'd reach London. When they reach their destination, they can be awarded some "prize" unique to the destination they travel to.

National Honesty Day (Honest Abe Awards): 30: Unfortunately, we read all too frequently in the sports section about sports figures who do or say things that are less than honest. For example, George O' Leary lied on his resumé and was let go as Notre Dame's football coach before he began. Furthermore, recent national surveys report that teens are less honest than generations ago and a greater percentage see nothing wrong with lying. This day can be used to discuss or have students respond to sport scenarios that center on honesty. Probes for such discussions include: What is the lie or potential lie presented in the scenario? What choices can the persons in the scenario make? Is there an absolute right or wrong? Two sample scenarios are provided:

1. Two rival teams are engaged in a tied-up soccer game near the end of the season, both teams jockeying for playoff position. With less than 5 minutes left, a player dribbling down the sideline near the opponent's goal is met by a defensive player. The offensive player clearly kicks the ball out-of-bounds, yet the referee awards the throw-in to the offensive team; the player who dribbled it out of bounds says nothing, and throws it in 25 yards into the penalty area where the ball is headed in for the winning goal.
2. The parents of a young looking 14-year-old star pitcher provide an altered birth certificate so that their son can be eligible to play Little League (up to 12 years old). Because of his age and advanced skill, he is able to convincingly win every game he pitches and the team advances to the Regional World Series, at which time the team coach accidentally discovers the lie, but keeps the discovery to himself without contacting League officials.