TITLE: Statistics Workshop for High School Students
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: We are going to hold an introductory workshop about the statistics. The participants will be students who have just finished their 8th or 9th grade. The workshop consists of 10 two-hour sessions. The students have a very limited background about the statistics: They can compute arithmetic average of a set of data, create pie charts, etc.
So we’re looking for some good educational material to introduce the students to some of the main statistical ideas, methods and concepts as well as to illustrate the importance of statistics in daily life.
Your suggestions would be of great help. 
Thanks.

REPLY [3 votes]: I posted this first in a comment, but it is really worth status as an answer.:
A middle school teacher gifted me an old book: "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff:

"Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform."

I was captivated while reading it, and remember feeling so empowered with the knowledge I gained after having read it! It is very highly relevant to life in the real world, as much today as decades ago, perhaps more so, given the information saturation of the current day and age.
When googling for a link to a preview of the book, I see that there are many powerpoints and pdf's available which are similarly titled: addressing the ways in which statistics can be used, and abused, both of which budding teen-agers will find engaging.