ABSTRACT
Heights Elementary School is a "school as museum." Each grade completes two museum exhibits per year. The diversity of the 6th grade class is representative of the school as a whole. Creating the museum exhibit took three months. Often times, students learn about the environment in sites of institutional ambiguity (e.g. through a book) without engagement with an audience and real purpose. These 6th graders were part of a longitudinal, school-wide initiative to make learning public. The chapter provides a thick description of the museum exhibit, focusing on the students assemblage of a diverse range of semiotic resources to design an exhibit meant to persuade people of the destructive impact of factory farming and the merits of sustainable farming.
