Spacial intelligence has to do with forming detailed mental pictures upon receiving new information. These mental pictures help individuals to process information in a manner that allows for an accurate and holistic perception of things. Research shows that one of the benefits of music in the classroom is its ability to heighten spacial brain activity, which can help students to solve complex math or logistical problems more effectively.
A National Commission on Music Education report explains that "music is a highway for exploring the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of experience." In plain English, this means that music in the classroom helps students to internalize information in a manner that has a personalized, emotional core to it. In addition, it enables students to tap into the images and feelings already stored in their brains, in order to create new thoughts or creative expressions that relate to the subject matter being discussed.
When important facts and formulas are set to popular melodies, the data becomes easy to memorize and to pull into the conscious mind upon demand. In the classroom, memorizing the multiplication tables or the 50 states of the Union is less complicated when students use music to help embed the information in their brain.
Students that associate learning with pleasure and fun are more likely to pursue knowledge of their own volition than students prodded along by duty and obligation. Allow children to dress up in the garb of the society you are teaching them about in social studies and put on indigenous music that that society of people created. The students are not likely to forget this lesson, though they may forget a thousand others.