Overview

Analyze influences on health with this Grade 3 Health lesson bundle aligned to the National Health Education Standards (NHES). Use 3 worksheets to help students describe how personal factors, media messages, family, and peers can shape health decisions. 😊

What’s Included

• ✅ Grade 3 Health – Personal Influences Worksheet (NHES Standards) (PDF) – Students identify personal factors that influence choices and practice clear explanations.
• ✅ Grade 3 Health Worksheet | Media Effects & Media Literacy (NHES PDF) – Students examine how media can affect beliefs and behaviors and apply media literacy habits.
• ✅ Grade 3 Health – Family and Peers Worksheet (NHES) Practice Set (PDF) – Students analyze how family and peer support, expectations, and norms influence health decisions.

Skills & Standards

Aligned to National Health Education Standards (NHES), these activities support students in building skills for informed health decisions. Students use crosscutting concepts such as relationships and interactions to connect influences (personal, media, and social) to health outcomes. Where relevant, the bundle supports disciplinary core ideas related to health behaviors and protective factors by having learners sort, compare, and justify choices. Throughout the worksheets, students participate in modeling through sample thinking processes (teacher think-alouds or guided examples), then practice analytical reasoning by asking what influence is present and how it may affect decisions. Students also practice evidence-based explanations by referencing details from the scenario or prompts to support their reasoning, rather than relying on opinion.

Perfect For

• Teachers seeking structured instruction
• Sub plans
• Homework or review
• Intervention or centers
• Assessment preparation

How to Use

This is a lesson bundle designed for multi-day pacing: Day 1 (Personal Influences), Day 2 (Media Effects & Media Literacy), and Day 3 (Family and Peers). Begin each day with a 5–10 minute prompt discussion, then have students complete the worksheet independently or in pairs, followed by a 5 minute share-out using sentence frames (for example: “A health influence I notice is…, and it could affect choices by…”). For centers or intervention, place students into small groups and provide one guided example before they work; for homework or review, ask them to complete one section and bring back a question they still have.

Closing

Plan a focused, standards-aligned sequence to help Grade 3 students analyze influences on health and explain their thinking with confidence. ✅