The Headwaters Science Center gift shop offers a wide variety of unusual gifts for all ages.  All are science-related and both fun and educational. There are hundreds of items to choose from.  Science Center members receive a $.50 discount on each $5.00 purchased.

Creative Shopping at
HSC’s Gift Store

Stop in and check out these new products!

√ Channel Craft Boomerangs
√ Odyssey Toys Play Sets - Animals move on magnetic backdrops, animal names printed on pieces, handcrafted in wood, for ages 3+
√Magnet Tangrams
√ Thames and Kosmos Kits:

Physics Solar Workshop–Solar Power Technology in Action
Physics Pro–Advanced Physics Kit
Physics Discovery–Introduction to Mechanical Physics
Microcontroller–Computer systems engineering kit
Powerhouse–Sustainable living in the 21st century
Kite Dynamics–Kite building & experiment kit
Fuel Cell–Car and experiment kit

√Yoho - Skilled Energy Products: Twirling Poi Light-Up Diabolo Twirling Staff
√ Bill Ding - The Original Balancing Clowns created in 1931
√ Steve Spangler: Geyser Tube

Lab-in-a-Bag -
Test Tube Wonders
Test Tube Adventures
Shaker Slime
pH Power
Newton's Antics
Fun Science Kits - Ooze!
Stormy Weather
Great Geysers

√ And––all of your old favorites are still here. Come in for great gifts!

Spring is here and summer is sure to follow; thoughts turn to the outdoors and plants. HSC has a variety of gardening and plant books specific to the North country. Here are a couple of books that will help you incorporate northwoods plants into your home garden setting.

Flowers for Northern Gardeners by Leon Snyder

Trees, Shrubs and Vines; a Pictorial Guide to theOrnamental Woody Plants of the Northern United States by Arthur T. Viertel.

If you’d like to wander through the wild landscape, be sure to bring the book, Graced by the Seasons; Spring and Summer in the Northwoods by John Bates.

These are only a few of the many titles available in our store.

HSC is featuring 3 new science-oriented story books.

Clan Apis by Jay Hosler tells about life in a bee hive as seen through the eyes of the worker bee Nyuki. The story begins with her birth and follows her life through the larval and pupa stages and on into adulthood where it follows her exploits as she finds her way around in the outside world as a worker bee.

Also by Jay Hosler is The Sandwalk Adventures – an Adventure in Evolution. This novel features an older Charles Darwin as he lives with his family. It seems that one of the follicle mites living in Charles’ left eyebrow can talk. Darwin assumes the task of explaining to the mite how forces of natural selection set the stage for its existence.

The third book we are featuring is Two-Fisted Science by Jim Ottaviani, Mark Badger, Donna Barr, and Sean Bieri. This book introduces some of the most famous figures in physics––not just what they are known for, but what kind of people they were. The stories are based on life experiences that helped shape the world views of these scientists