Overview

Analyze influences on health in Grade 8 Health using 3 NHES lesson-bundle worksheets for focused discussion and decision-making. Students examine how media, technology, family, peers, culture, and public policy shape health choices, then practice communicating their thinking with evidence.

What’s Included

• ✅ Grade 8 Health – Media and Technology Worksheet (NHES) PDF – Use to help students identify how messages in media and technology can influence beliefs, behaviors, and health decisions.
• ✅ Grade 8 Health Worksheet | Family and Peers NHES Standards (PDF) – Use to support students in analyzing interpersonal influences and describing how relationships affect healthy actions.
• ✅ 8th Grade Health Worksheet | Culture and Policy (PDF) Aligned to NHES – Use to guide students in connecting cultural norms and policy decisions to access, safety, and overall wellbeing.

Skills & Standards

Aligned to the National Health Education Standards (NHES), these worksheets target skills in analyzing influences on health by having students access valid information, interpret perspectives, and explain how factors interact over time. Students practice crosscutting concepts such as systems and interactions (how environments shape choices) and cause and effect (how different influences lead to outcomes). The activities also build disciplinary core ideas related to NHES health decision-making: recognizing external factors, evaluating information, and using communication to support healthy choices. To strengthen understanding, teachers can incorporate modeling by demonstrating how to break down a scenario, then use analytical reasoning to compare influences across contexts. Finally, students write and share evidence-based explanations that cite what they observed or learned from each worksheet scenario.

Perfect For

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

How to Use

Plan a multi-day pacing sequence: complete the Media and Technology worksheet first to establish students’ noticing skills, follow with Family and Peers to expand analysis to relationships, and end with Culture and Policy to connect influences to broader access and safety. Consider a quick whole-group discussion after each worksheet, then have students revise a short evidence-based claim using class notes. For centers or intervention, place each worksheet in a rotating station with a one-page prompt for students to identify the influence, predict an impact, and record the evidence they used.

Closing

Use these NHES-aligned health worksheets to help students connect media, family, culture, and policy to evidence-based health choices.