Students will launch the Peru investigation by listening to a Peru picture book, moving through a mountains-river-coast travel path, and helping build a shared class map with labels and picture cards. They will begin wondering how landforms and bodies of water help people, plants, and animals and name features a visitor should notice on a map.

Students will turn their Peru observations into a focused investigation by choosing key landforms and bodies of water to study, stating simple ideas about how each one helps living things, and making a teacher-guided plan for collecting evidence with pictures, labels, and oral notes.

Students will sort evidence from earlier investigations, turn their findings into a clear labeled Peru map or display piece, and practice a short oral tour that explains how mountains, rivers, and the coast help people, plants, and animals. They will use teacher and peer feedback to revise labels, pictures, and spoken explanations before the showcase.

Students will present their finished Peru map products to families and another class, give a short oral tour using map evidence about how landforms and bodies of water support life, and close with a spoken reflection on what they learned.