Teach your students a rap song where the lyrics are also the material. For example, make a historically significant event, such as the French Revolution, into a poem, with each stanza as a new verse. The strong beat of a rap song will help your rhythmic-musical learners commit the information to memory. Weaving a rhythmic order and repetitive beat through the material helps make dates and places less arbitrary and more connected than seeing the facts on paper.
Teach your musical-rhythmic learners the sequence of a process through a series of connected sounds and tones. For example, teach a biology unit on cardiac functioning while playing a series of rhythmic, sequential sounds that mimic the swooshing of blood flowing through the ventricles and the clopping thump of a beating heart. Encourage the students to make these sounds themselves while drawing how blood flows on a heart diagram.
Dancing a lesson appeals to the musical-rhythmic learners' sensitivity to rhythm and patterned movement. The dance doesn't have to be complex or elegant, but must correlate to the subject matter and follow a predicable rhythm. For example, teach cloud patterns by having students sway their bodies and use different hand movements for atmospheric pressure. Associating information with a particular movement or dance step makes the connection tangible for musical-rhythmic learners.
Assigning a numeric value to individual musical tones helps musical-rhythmic learners learn mathematical facts. For example, teach multiplication tables by assigning a musical tone to each of three sections in a multiplication problem, such as, "Two (tone 1) times three (tone 2) is six (tone 3)." Further engage your musical-rhythmic learners by giving each student a small, medium and large tin cup that they will hit with a mallet to create tones 1, 2 and 3 while reciting multiplication tables.