Overview

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Analyze influences on health in Grade 6 Health with this lesson bundle aligned to National Health Education Standards (NHES); it includes 4 worksheets to help students explain how social, media, and environmental factors affect wellbeing. Built for classroom discussion and independent practice, these pages guide students to move from identifying influences to using evidence-based reasoning about health decisions. 📄

What’s Included

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• ✅ 6th Grade Health Worksheet | Understanding Social Influences (PDF) – Students identify how peers, family, culture, and community shape health choices.
• ✅ 6th Grade Health Worksheet | Media Effects NHES Standards (PDF) – Students connect media messages to health behaviors and analyze potential impact.
• ✅ 6th Grade Health Worksheet | Environmental Factors & Health (PDF) – Students examine how environment, access, and safety conditions influence health.
• ✅ 6th Grade Health Worksheet | Complex Influences & NHES Standards (PDF) – Students practice explaining complex, overlapping influences using NHES-aligned prompts.

Skills & Standards

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Designed around National Health Education Standards (NHES), this lesson bundle supports student learning using crosscutting concepts such as cause and effect and systems thinking. Learners engage disciplinary core ideas in health education by examining how multiple influences interact to shape health outcomes, then apply modeling strategies (for example, mapping influence chains) to make thinking visible. As students complete each worksheet, they strengthen analytical reasoning by sorting evidence, describing relationships among factors, and writing evidence-based explanations that reflect how and why influences can affect health decisions.

Perfect For

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

How to Use

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Use this as a multi-day lesson bundle: plan 1 worksheet per day (or combine two worksheets for a longer block) and reserve brief time for whole-class modeling before students begin. Suggested pacing: Day 1 social influences, Day 2 media effects, Day 3 environmental factors, and Day 4 complex influences synthesis; finish with a short discussion where students use one completed response as a model for evidence-based explanations. For centers or intervention, pair the worksheet with a sentence-starter for claims and evidence so students can practice analytical reasoning without losing momentum.

Closing

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Use these NHES-aligned worksheets to guide students in explaining how different influences can shape health and wellbeing with clear, evidence-based reasoning.