Evaluating health information sources is an essential Grade 5 Health skill, especially when students encounter health claims through websites, digital media, and everyday messages. This worksheet gives students structured practice deciding whether health information is trustworthy by examining credentials, evidence, purpose, relevance, and recency.

Build practical health information literacy

Students move beyond simply labeling information as true or false. They examine the clues that make a health source more dependable, compare accurate health messages with common misinformation patterns, and explain why current and relevant information matters when making personal health decisions.

A simple source-evaluation checklist gives students a practical process for deciding whether information is safe to use. This focus supports functional health concepts and information within the National Health Education Standards (NHES) framework named for the resource.

What students work with

The worksheet uses several ways to demonstrate health information literacy, including multiple-choice questions, true-false statements, short-answer responses, a dialogue, matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, and an essay. Together, these tasks ask students to identify source clues, compare health messages, explain their reasoning, and apply source-evaluation criteria.

What you receive

• ✔️ Student worksheet focused on evaluating health information sources
• ✔️ Student Notes lines at the bottom of the worksheet
• ✔️ Separate Teacher Guide with learning objectives
• ✔️ Teaching tips and discussion questions
• ✔️ Common mistakes to help guide instruction

Use it across your health lesson

Use the worksheet for independent practice after introducing trustworthy health sources, as a review of digital health information and misinformation, or as a structured activity for applying source-evaluation skills. The dialogue, reading passage, diagram, and written-response tasks also give teachers several entry points for discussing how students decide which health messages deserve their trust.

The separate Teacher Guide supports lesson preparation and follow-up discussion, while the Student Notes space gives learners a place to record reminders or key ideas. Rather than treating health information evaluation as an abstract concept, the worksheet centers the specific clues students can use when judging a source: credentials, evidence, purpose, relevance, and recency.

This Grade 5 health worksheet is a practical choice for teaching students to evaluate health information, recognize misinformation patterns, and make more informed decisions about the health messages they encounter.