Risk assessment for healthy decisions is the focus of this Grade 5 Health worksheet, giving students structured practice with weighing risks, benefits, harms, and safer alternatives before making a choice. Based on the National Health Education Standards (NHES) framework named for this resource, the worksheet develops practical decision-making skills through realistic health situations.

Build healthier decision-making skills

Students work with the meaning and purpose of risk assessment and examine how considering possible outcomes can support healthier choices. Tasks ask learners to identify short-term and long-term risks, compare potential benefits with possible harms, and describe ways to reduce risk or choose a healthier alternative.

This makes the resource useful when teaching health decision-making, personal risk awareness, and the process of evaluating choices rather than simply identifying whether a behavior is healthy or unhealthy.

Students practice in multiple ways

The worksheet moves students through several forms of thinking and response. Students encounter multiple-choice and true-false questions alongside short-answer responses, matching, a cloze passage, and a dialogue. A labeled diagram provides a visual task, while a reading passage supports application of the lesson concepts. An essay gives students an opportunity to explain their thinking in greater depth.

What you receive

• ✔️ Grade 5 Health worksheet on risk assessment and healthy decisions
• ✔️ Student Notes lines at the bottom of the worksheet
• ✔️ Separate Teacher Guide with learning objectives and teaching tips
• ✔️ Discussion questions for extending classroom conversation
• ✔️ Common mistakes to help teachers anticipate student difficulties

Flexible classroom use

Use this health worksheet during a lesson on decision-making skills, as guided or independent practice after instruction, or as a review of how students can evaluate health-related choices. The mix of selected-response, written-response, reading, visual, and extended-writing tasks lets students demonstrate the same core decision-making concepts in different ways.

The accompanying Teacher Guide supports lesson preparation and follow-up discussion, while the Student Notes area gives learners a dedicated place to record important ideas. Together, these features make the resource a practical way to reinforce risk assessment, safer choices, risk reduction, and short-term versus long-term consequences in Grade 5 Health.