March Holiday Resources
So here are the holiday resources for March - only one post for the entire month (unlike in February). Probably the biggest ones included this month include St. Patrick's Day, March Madness and everything that goes with that, the Academy Awards (Oscars), and the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. But as usual, I included a few smaller ones as well. Also a reminder that Easter is in April this year (so I moved those resources accordingly). Look for a follow-up post featuring 3-4 of the newest (or most interesting) resources tomorrow!
Jay LeBlanc
2/25/20266 min read
March "Holiday" Lesson Plans:
“Dollars and Dough: The Recipe for Girl Scout Pricing”, FEE Learning Center, Mar 2024, https://teachers.fee.org/courses/choice-worksheets. Based on this New York Times article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mPfNY1R4KyDSibDQQbrTHShbxZUQW4pNY6oad6Woy2I/edit#heading=h.m0689psm49wr
“Economic Marvels #26: The Economics of March Madness”, FEE Learning Center, Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y-8X9HLS5cksNGNvsvH6Q4j5dN4ZdJUVqeoxaDzd3Hg/edit
“Economic Spotter: Resources During World War II”, EconEdLink (from the Council for Economic Education), Feb 2026, https://econedlink.org/resources/economic-spotter-resources-during-world-war-ii/
“FinCap Friday: Fretting Over Online Betting”, Next Gen Personal Finance, Feb 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQYtvWPs_k and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/consumer-skills/fincap-friday-fretting-over-online-betting/
“FinCap Friday: Financially Confident Women”, Next Gen Personal Finance, Mar 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06XOziz4u-c&t=2s and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/fincap-friday/fincap-friday-financially-confident-women/
“FinCap Friday: Women of the S&P [Women's History Month]”, Next Gen Personal Finance, Mar 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLa0NvqBQ80 and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/fincap-friday/fincap-friday-women-of-the-sp/
“March Madness and the Economics of College Basketball”, EconEdLink (from the Council for Economic Education), Jan 2023, https://econedlink.org/webinar/march-madness-and-the-economics-of-college-basketball/
“PROJECT: Plan a Spring Break Trip”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pleCDhVS3bJp1Sfd-pdnoGDWnhsqykFeRrERLGP7FVk/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-womens-history-month-a-major-investment-firm-analyzed-5-million-accounts-over-a-10-year-period-who-earned-higher-returns-men-or-women/ (blog article w/links)
“Question of the Day: What percentage of U.S. consumers planned to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year?”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HDQ3U0aCbsnZp43nSenoJG1wmGutnusFGbbZGFCV4cM/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-percentage-of-us-consumers-planned-to-celebrate-st-patricks-day-this-year/ (blog article w/links)
“Question of the Day: What is the estimated amount of money lost in worker productivity due to March Madness each year?”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A88snn2rCUGq2DELknnbhKboEAXCFb9CMPm__oBiwC0/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-what-is-the-estimated-amount-of-money-lost-in-worker-productivity-due-to-march-madness-each-year/ (blog article w/links)
“Question of the Day [Women's History Month]: Do men or women tend to be better investors?”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xctdOXqipn9T650lH32LISfup-3gFRaaoUosfzzGT5k/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-womens-history-month-a-major-investment-firm-analyzed-5-million-accounts-over-a-10-year-period-who-earned-higher-returns-men-or-women/ (blog article w/links)
“Question of the Day [Women's History Month]: In what year were women in the U.S. first enabled to get a business loan without the signature of a male relative?”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zBM8SJGXKecALGo-0a9Z7u8EVo374744VNcTeu3p0q0/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-womens-history-month-in-what-year-were-women-in-the-us-first-enabled-to-get-a-business-loan-without-the-signature-of-a-male-relative/ (blog article w/links)
“Question of the Day [Women's History Month]: When were women first able to get credit cards without a co-signer?”, (from Next Gen Personal Finance), Updated Mar 2025, https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QeB5_ooDIZNtJg5JvXqfXcG43N3ATOlh0jgKlLa_J2g/edit (lesson) and https://www.ngpf.org/blog/question-of-the-day/question-of-the-day-when-were-women-first-allowed-to-get-credit-cards/ (blog article w/links)
“The Richest Women in America in One Graphic” (infographic), Visual Capitalist, Nov 2021, https://www.visualcapitalist.com/richest-women-in-america/
“Using Children’s Literature to Teach About Economics and Enterprising Women”, EconEdLink (from the Council for Economic Education), Apr 2023, https://econedlink.org/resources/using-childrens-literature-to-teach-about-economics-and-enterprising-women/
“Visualizing Women’s Economic Rights Around the World” (infographic), Visual Capitalist, Nov 2021, https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-womens-economic-rights-around-the-world/
“What Should College Athletes Be Paid? Market Structure and the NCAA” from Page One Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Jul 2023, https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/page-one-economics-classroom-edition/market-structure-and-the-ncaa
“Work, Earnings, and Economics: ‘Lyddie’ by Katherine Paterson”, EconEdLink (from the Council for Economic Education), Dec 2025, https://econedlink.org/resources/work-earnings-and-economics-using-lyddie-by-katherine-paterson/
Government Resources for March "Holidays":
“96th Oscars/Academy Awards: March 10, 2024 Stats for Stories”, U.S. Census, Mar 2024, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/academy-awards.html
“Irish-American Heritage Month and St. Patrick’s Day: March 2026 Facts for Features”, U.S. Census, Feb 2026, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2026/irish-american-heritage.html
Primary Source Set on Women in Science and Technology resources (Women’s History Month), Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/women-in-science-and-technology/
“Red Cross Month Stats for Stories”, U.S. Census, Mar 2024, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/american-red-cross-month.html
“St. Patrick's Day and Irish-American Heritage Month Fun Facts”, U.S. Census, Mar 2025, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sis/resources/fun-facts/st--patrick.html
“St. Patrick's Day in America”, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institute), https://npg.si.edu/blog/st-patricks-day-america
“Women’s History Month Facts for Features”, U.S. Census, Feb 2026, https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2026/womens-history-month.html
“Women’s History Month Fun Facts”, U.S. Census, Mar 2025, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sis/resources/fun-facts/womens-history.html
Women’s History Month website, Library of Congress, Mar 2024, https://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/
Women in Business blog articles, Library of Congress, https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/category/women/
March "Holiday" Economist/Historian Blog Articles:
“And the Oscar for Economics Goes To... What can the Oscar nominees tell us about the economy?, Some Unpleasant Arithmetic, Mar 2024, Part I - https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/and-the-oscar-for-economics-goes?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 and Part II - https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/and-the-oscar-for-economics-goes-e5e?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
“The Basketball Bargaining Battle That Will Shrink the Gender Pay Gap”, Econlife, Mar 2025, https://econlife.com/2025/03/sports-gender-pay-gap-2/
“The Economics of March Madness”, The Hustle.com, updated Feb 2024, https://thehustle.co/03172022-march-madness
“Gender Inequity at March Madness”, Econlife, Mar 2023, https://econlife.com/2023/03/march-madness-gender-equity-2/
“How the Gender Gap Has Barely Budged”, Econlife, Mar 2023, https://econlife.com/2023/03/gender-gap/
“Miami Beach's Experiment in Solving Spring Break Externalities”, Monday Morning Economist, Mar 2024, https://www.mondayeconomist.com/p/spring-break. FEE’s connected lesson available from their Learning Center - https://teachers.fee.org/courses/mme
“Party of One: How Single Women Stack Up in the U.S. Economy”, Wells Fargo Economics, Mar 2023, https://wellsfargo.bluematrix.com/links2/html/d0f1547d-0864-4f9f-a630-32f147eabd95
“A Timely Discussion on Unintended Consequences”, Monday Morning Economist, Nov 2022, https://www.mondayeconomist.com/p/dst
“What We Need To Know About Time”, Econlife, Mar 2025, https://econlife.com/2025/03/facts-about-time/
Other general ECON/PFL/Social Studies articles on March “holidays”:
“3 Financial Benefits of Daylight Saving Time”, GO Banking Rates, Oct 2023, https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/little-known-financial-benefits-to-daylight-saving-time/
“19 Fun and Interesting St. Patrick’s Day Facts”, The Planet D, Jan 2024 (updated), https://theplanetd.com/st-patricks-day-facts/
“2023 St. Patrick's Day Facts”, WalletHub, Mar 2023, https://wallethub.com/blog/st-patricks-day-facts/10960
“2025 March Madness Stats & Facts”, WalletHub, Mar 2025, https://wallethub.com/blog/march-madness-statistics/11016
“The absurd odds of a perfect NCAA bracket” (with associated video), NCAA.com, Mar 2023, https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracketiq/2023-03-16/perfect-ncaa-bracket-absurd-odds-march-madness-dream
“Best Cities for College Basketball Fans (2026)”, WalletHub, Mar 2025, https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-college-basketball/32944
“Best Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations (2026)”, WalletHub, Mar 2025, https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-for-st-patricks-day-celebrations/19603
“College stars’ name and image deals vs. the health of athletic departments” (podcast), Marketplace, Mar 2023, https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/15/college-stars-name-and-image-deals-vs-the-health-of-athletic-departments/
“Daylight saving time causes lower productivity and higher health care costs, studies say”, PBS News, Mar 2025, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/daylight-saving-time-causes-lower-productivity-and-higher-health-care-costs-studies-say
“Do Americans Really Want Permanent Daylight Saving Time?”, FiveThirtyEight, Mar 2022, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/do-americans-really-want-permanent-daylight-saving-time/
“Dyeing the Chicago River green is a St. Patrick's Day tradition. How did it start?”, NPR, Mar 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1086988193/st-patricks-day-green-chicago-river
“Economic and Political Implications of Extending Daylight Saving Time”, Oxford Political Review, Jan 2024, https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/01/02/economic-and-political-implications-of-extending-daylight-saving-time/
“Expert explains how investment and interest have created ‘virtuous cycle’ for women’s March Madness”, Virginia Tech News (interviewing Dr. Jadrian Wooten from VT), Mar 2024, https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/womens-march-madness.html
“Here’s Why Health Experts Want to Stop Daylight-Saving Time”, Wall Street Journal, Mar 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/heres-why-health-experts-want-to-stop-daylight-saving-time-11583340628
“How Much Does the NCAA Make Off March Madness?”, Investopedia, Jun 2023, https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/031516/how-much-does-ncaa-make-march-madness.asp
“How will making daylight saving time permanent affect the economy?” (podcast), Marketplace, Mar 2022, https://www.marketplace.org/2022/03/16/how-will-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent-affect-the-economy/
“Oscars Facts: 97th Academy Awards By The Numbers”, WalletHub, Feb 2025, https://wallethub.com/blog/oscars-facts/19250
“POLL - More Americans prefer daylight saving time to standard time”, CBS News, Apr 2022, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-prefer-daylight-savings-to-standard-time-cbs-news-poll/
“Saint Patrick (Major Religious Figures)”, Biography.com, Mar 2023, https://www.biography.com/religious-figures/saint-patrick
“St. Patrick’s Day traditions, explained”, VOX.com, Mar 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/3/17/11250046/st-patricks-day-google-doodle
“St. Patrick’s Day – Holiday and Shopping Trends”, National Retail Federation, Mar 2025, https://nrf.com/research-insights/holiday-data-and-trends/st-patricks-day
“Seven legacies of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games”, International Paralympic Committee, Mar 2025, https://www.paralympic.org/feature/seven-legacies-milano-cortina-2026
“What Does an Accounting Firm Do for the Oscars?”, Investopedia, Jan 2023, https://www.investopedia.com/what-does-an-accounting-firm-for-the-oscars-do-4586515
“Why do clocks spring forward?”, PBS News/Associated Press, Mar 2024, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/why-do-clocks-spring-forward
“Winter Paralympics 2026: Key storylines and athletes to watch at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Games”, Olympics.com, Feb 2026, https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/paralympic-games/news/winter-paralympics-2026-key-storylines-athletes-watch-milano-cortina-preview
“Women’s History Month”, National Geographic Kids, Mar 2024, https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/womens-history-month