Garden Grow

• Grades K–3
• Science
• Math

Garden Grow is a calm merge puzzle: drag two the same together to grow seeds into apples, tadpoles into frogs and 8s into 16s, then fill the orders. No timers or energy — just plan your taps.

Free trial: 3 days with the first 25 levels of every game. No card needed.

What it teaches

• Life cycles: seed → sprout → flower → fruit, egg → chick → hen, tadpole → frog, butterflies
• Doubling numbers (8 + 8 = 16) in the Doubling chapter
• Plan ahead to fill orders before the taps run out

Enrichment: the Space chapter's dust → space rock → moon → planet → star chain is a small-to-big ladder, not a lesson on how stars form, so it isn't tied to a standard. It builds ordering by size, space vocabulary and planning ahead to fill the orders.

Chapter by chapter

• Garden: Plant life cycle
• Farm: Animal life cycle (egg → chick → hen)
• Pond: Frog life cycle
• Butterflies: Butterfly metamorphosis
• Doubling: Doubling numbers 1 → 32
• Space: Enrichment: small-to-big space ladder
• Mixed: Life cycles + doubling (review)
• Master: Life cycles + doubling (review)

Standards

Common Core (Math / ELA)

• CCSS.Math.Content.2.OA.C.3 … write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.

TEKS (Texas)

• TEKS Sci K.13C Identify and record the changes from seed, seedling, plant, flower, and fruit in a simple plant life cycle.
• TEKS Sci 2.13D Investigate and describe some of the unique life cycles of animals where young animals do not resemble their parents, including butterflies and frogs.
• TEKS 2.4A Recall basic facts to add and subtract within 20 with automaticity.

B.E.S.T. (Florida math & ELA)

• MA.2.AR.3.1 Represent an even number using two equal groups or two equal addends.

Florida NGSSS (science / social studies) & Florida Computer Science

• SC.2.L.16.1 Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals, including beans and butterflies.
• SC.4.L.16.4 Compare and contrast the major stages in the life cycles of Florida plants and animals, such as those that undergo incomplete and complete metamorphosis …

NGSS (science)

• 3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
• 1-LS3-1 Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Practice / process standards (CCSS MP, Florida MTR, TEKS process)

• CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.