Engineering and Mathematics. Usually, the educational concept has been used to boost up those fields
particularly at pre-college levels. The importance leads to the prosperity and rigorous development directly.
Therefore, the STEM education is the most important one for the future generation, so that the nation could
survive with abundant prosperity. As described above, it can be defined as early-stage science and engineering
education, even though it actually might extend to post-secondary education. The STEM education is expected
to play an important role for creative engineering education which should be the core of engineering education.
Since the many portions of STEM education are related to early stage and pre-secondary education, the factor
such as joyfulness, entertainment, having fun etc. would be very important for the successful outcomes.
Therefore, we were trying to introduce Metaverse into the STEM education in this project. Metaverse is the
virtual 3-Dimensional World[3]. We have investigated many possibilities so far[4]-[8]. When it would be
applied to e-learning, one of the remarkable advantages is clearly that students could have the sense of reality
during virtual classes. The factor could make up for one of the serious weak points of e-learning. However, in
this study, we dealt with the e-learning class for elementary school children (11 and 12 years old students).
The use of Metaverse was doubtful and still controversial for the educational purpose due to their age problem.
And actually, their computer and internet literacy were still at the beginning stage. Therefore, we made the
plan composed of both virtual and real sides. Actually, the part of lecture, guidance and leading for the project
was assigned to the virtual side, while the hands-on activity to the real life exercises. It means that this pilot
project could be defined as the blend education project of e-learning and real hands-on activity for early stage
students. We carried out the blend education to investigate if the blend arrangement for STEM education
would work well or not. The results were discussed from the viewpoint of both the system availability and also
the STEM education.