I have a child theme that will load my style.css file but will not load my php template file. 

I got this template file by copying and pasting it from the parent directory into a new file with the same file name and everything. Then I edited one line of text as a test and loaded the file into the root of the child theme directory. I refreshed my site but no change could be seen. 

The theme is zerif-lite and I'm not sure why this is happening