Building upon The Roots to Rise fall project when students explored the power of their own roots and stories. Students will explore the rise of a changemaker through developing an understanding of a changemakers roots story, the system or problem they are trying to disrupt, and what strategies they used to create change. The students were required to pick any of the topics we came up with as a class to research further. They then needed to do their own research with the "research libraries" teachers provided for them. They then needed to write down all of the notes they found interesting in a research note catcher. Once they believed to have researched enough facts about the challenges and facts about the solutions, they began putting all of what they learned onto a giant research note catcher poster. 

Following the research, students then needed to create their own infographics in which they state their "we believe..." statement they came up with as a group, 3-5 important facts they came up with as a partnership, 3-5 important solutions they came up with as a partnership, as well as changemakers in their community, their QR code, their sources, and 4-5 meaningful pictures that relate directly to their topic. 

Once completed with the infographic, students then needed to write an informational letter to a business, important person, or company, requesting to display their infographic so that it spreads awareness within their community. At exhibition, students displayed their infographics and went through the information listed on them. Afterwards, they took their audience members to engage in an action step that would directly support their challenge at hand.