Environmental Influences on Health gives Grade 6 Health students a focused way to analyze how surroundings, community conditions, and policies can affect physical activity and health risks. Aligned with the National Health Education Standards (NHES), the resource connects everyday environmental conditions to practical health outcomes.

What Students Explore

Students examine how safe parks, sidewalks, street design, air quality, pollution, unsafe living conditions, and environmental hazards can increase or decrease opportunities for healthy behaviors. They use evidence from scenarios to predict how environmental changes may affect health and consider how community actions and policies can create safer, more supportive conditions.

Student Practice

The worksheet moves students through a varied set of tasks, including a dialogue, definition matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short responses, and an extended response. Questions address cause-and-effect relationships such as how poor air quality can affect breathing, how unsafe neighborhoods may reduce physical activity, and how bike lanes, street lighting, safe parks, and pollution controls can support healthier choices.

Teacher Support Included

• Teacher Guide with learning objectives
• Teaching tips for classroom use
• Discussion questions to extend the lesson
• Common mistakes to help teachers anticipate student misunderstandings

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 6 health worksheet as focused classroom practice while teaching environmental influences on health, as a reading and response activity, or as an opportunity for students to apply health concepts to realistic community scenarios. The extended response also gives students a structured opportunity to explain an environmental issue, connect it to physical activity and health risks, and describe community or policy actions that could improve the situation.

This resource is especially useful when students need to connect environmental health, physical activity, community spaces, air quality, environmental hazards, and public health policies rather than study each idea in isolation.